Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week later the Italian Government indefinitely suspended Correspondent Matthews' use of the transatlantic tele phone. Said the Times: "We take [this] as one more evidence of the senility of a regime already doomed, and sustaining the semblance of life only because it is guarded by Nazi bayonets...
...Liberty Belles are very serious about their work. Besides dancing with soldiers, the Belles listen sympathetically to their troubles, play cards, ping-pong, or just sit, if that's wanted. The girls are warned against allowing one date to monopolize their evening, against giving out phone numbers carelessly. So well had the brigade done its job that San Antoniannes who wouldn't have spoken to a man in uniform a year ago now look forward to their dates with the Army...
...invaluable in times of peace as well as during a war. As there is only a limited number in the class, those who want to take the course should sign up immediately on the appropriate threats on the main bulletin boards of the Houses and the Union, or phone Eliot...
...receive several long-distance telephone calls (via lackey holding portable phone) while lunching at Hollywood's Brown Derby is to acquire izzat. To work for a mere $1,000 a week after once earning $2,000 is to lose izzat. Film folk of superior izzat, putting in a phone call to an inferior, wait studiously until the inferior is on the wire before deigning to pick up the telephone receiver. Peter the Hermit, who struts along Hollywood Boulevard in his bare feet, is short on cash but long on izzat...
...length came a morning when Habe, at his observation post, saw the opposing slope mushroom brazenly with helmetless German heads, and their officers, calm on the skyline with spread maps, pointing at him with gloved fingers. The French had no ammunition. Later his phone went dead. He and his two companions realized that everyone had withdrawn behind them. They faced 60,000 Germans. Carrying their 250 pounds of observation equipment-"we were three soldiers unable to lose confidence in the army in a single night"-they retreated...