Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Committee for State Security, better known as the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopasnosti). A policeman is posted outside the door to the Sakharovs' Gorky apartment virtually round the clock. They cannot step outdoors without a KGB escort. They are denied a telephone (they use pay booths or a special phone center). Because of jamming, they must go to the edge of town, where reception is good, to listen to the radio. There are touching moments of warmth between "Andryusha" and "Lusia" (or "Andryushenka" and "Lyusenka"), as they address each other. But the KGB's chilling presence invariably reasserts itself. As Bonner...
...come tell me what happened, and I'll inform the press." There were now police posted at my door every day. The press would not be able to get through to me. I was not permitted to have a telephone in my apartment, and I could not use the phone booth near my house to call because it had been disconnected. Somehow I would have to find a phone...
...apple picking orchards in West Brattleboro, in Bellow's Fall, in Grafton. That's what the tourism board told us, but by the time we got to Vermont, it was difficult to decipher my handwriting and keep my eye on the road at the same time. And the phone number for Francis Miller Orchards was busy when we called...
...checks, he remembers, "always seemed to come just in time to buy antibiotics for the baby's ear infection or to keep the telephone in the apartment for another record-breaking month." One baby later, there was barely enough money for the kids and none at all for the phone. It was disconnected the month King turned in the manuscript of Carrie, a novel about an adolescent with telekinetic powers and a lethal resentment of her high school tormentors. The work was worth a $2,500 advance, more than enough to pay some bills. And a good thing...
...best and most troublesome team in the country. "It's the University of Miami football players against the world," declares All-America Tackle Jerome Brown, who has been evicted from the dormitory for having a firearm. A chunk of the team is in the process of making restitution for phone calls charged with an illegal access number. Individual scandals have ranged from car-leasing improprieties to steroid possession to shoplifting. In other news, they beat Oklahoma last week...