Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...financial community around the U.S. and kept Wall Street bartenders busy long after the close of trading. "So many people bailed out we couldn't keep track of what was happening," said one Big Board broker. "They would scream 'Sell everything!' before you could say hello on the phone." Not even the New York Stock Exchange computers could keep up with the activity, and transactions were running 30 minutes behind at noon...
...tell clients, if clients would listen at all. "This is just sheer crazy," said Arthur Randall, a broker with E.F. Hutton. "You try to be cool and counsel patience. But what do you tell a client when in the course of the minute he's been on the phone with you the Dow has fallen 20 points?" Said Alan Klein, an investment-minded dentist from Roslyn Heights, N.Y.: "It was like a two-day root canal without anesthetic. You find me a patient who can keep cool under those conditions, I will find you an investor who can keep cool...
...waking nightmare that haunts every American reporter in Moscow. Nicholas Daniloff, 52, a respected correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, had been receiving persistent phone invitations to meet with a Soviet acquaintance named Misha. Daniloff, who was busy packing to leave Moscow after a 5 1/2-year stint, kept putting Misha off. Finally they arranged to meet in a park in the Lenin Hills near Daniloff's apartment. As they walked, Misha edgily pressed into Daniloff's hands an envelope he said contained newspaper clippings. Daniloff gave Misha a goodbye gift: two books of horror stories by Stephen King. That...
Lowell and Wilson began arguing about Robert Frost, whom Wilson called a "dreadful old fake." So Lowell immediately telephoned Frost to invite him to the dinner too. "He told Mrs. Frost over the phone that I was a great admirer of Frost's." When the venerable poet arrived at the increasingly disastrous dinner, Lowell kept moving him from chair to chair, allegedly because Frost had a bad ear but effectively making "sustained conversation impossible...
...same day, another Soweto councilor, Siegfried Manthata, who heads a group dedicated to "crime control," fled with his family through his backyard and took refuge with neighbors after a mob stormed his house. The attackers hurled rocks through the windows, cut the phone line, doused the dwelling with gasoline and set it on fire...