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Word: phoning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shiniest names became her steady customers. Brenda felt so secure that she even took a quarter-page ad in a film directory published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; it was a nice refined ad -just a couple of pictures of her, her name and phone number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Brenda's Revenge | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...Populist cabinet with himself as Premier and for a while it looked as though he would have his way. One evening last week, all the cabinet candidates, immaculate in grey ties and white shirts, were assembled in Tsaldaris' living room, drinking Turkish coffee and waiting for a phone call from the King to summon them to the swearing-in ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Good Government | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...phone rang; the caller was Sophocles Venizelos, a Liberal who had previously gone along with Tsaldaris. He had changed his mind. The happy faces began to bead with sweat. There was nothing to be done; the candidates went home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Good Government | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...coast, nothing much happens. In the course of the love story, Sweden's Viveca Lindfors is not only pleasant to look at, but appears to be an actress. Reagan plays the role of the epileptic with the abstracted air of a man who has just forgotten an important phone number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 4, 1949 | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Eddie didn't show up and Ruth decided to forget about killing him and go to sleep. But her phone rang at 11:20 p.m. Eddie had been out and had just gotten her note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Silly Honey | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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