Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foul-up by the Harvard Yearbook staff, Susan Hegeman '86 and Jessica Liu '86 have received about 30 unwanted phone calls every day for the past two weeks from upcoming graduates inquiring about senior portrait appointments...
...tell him what we've learned, tell him the circumstances, tell him that in view of this and the fact that we, and presumably they, didn't have those facts, we insist that they prosecute those sons of bitches. The second thing: I want you to pick up the phone and call Washington and tell them what we've done. And if they want to follow it up, that's fine...
...walk-over, said Senator Nunn, but only because the defenders were few and poorly armed. Coordination among the services was abysmal. Nunn cited the case of one Army officer who, unable to reach the Navy because of incompatible communication systems, had to use his AT&T credit card to phone his office in North Carolina to pass along a request for naval bombardment. In an interview with TIME, Goldwater noted that during the Grenada operation "52 top-secret messages were sent to the operational commander and never got there because one service's radios weren't operative with the other...
...other club news, six Democratic Club members this week received $100 tickets to Gov. Michael S. Dukakis's birthday party gratis in exchange for a couple of hours phone calls to potential patrons...
Campbell also received obscene phone calls in the middle of the night and other harassment, The Spotlight reported, and was finally finagled out of his job by being put up for promotion. Waiting for his confirmation in the new position, he was told to leave his current post. As it turned out, he had never even been nominated...