Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Then you find a centrex phone and make some frantic calls. You finally find the party. You hurry over to the House only to find five strangers desperately trying to have fun on tomato juice and Perrier. Someone breaks out the computer games. You don't wake...
...stepmother just called to say she'll be coming up for Freshman Parents' Weekend. She's a great woman--she pays for school, books, trips, con traceptives, the phone bill, and my car. But she has a drinking problem, and I don't want to see her drink alone. I heard that she can give me drinks in my room because it's in loco parentis, but there's a problem...
Vicki Clayton was headed for Seattle aboard the Puget Sound ferry when she remembered that her children's school was closing early that day. Undaunted, she simply picked up the phone and arranged for a baby-sitter. Clayton, a Bainbridge Island homemaker, thus availed herself of one of the latest benefits of the information age: pay phones on public transportation...
Baldrige is at her best when dispensing sensible advice about such mundane matters as writing memos and talking to one's boss or client. No one should end a phone conversation by saying "Have a nice day," she counsels. "The person you say that to may be facing an IRS audit or a tooth extraction." For those too shy to make small talk at cocktail parties, Baldrige offers a list of innocuous conversational subjects. Examples: landscape gardening, Princess Diana, the A.S.P.C.A., professional wrestling and the use of hypnotism to stop smoking...
...where the American press center was going to be. Then they asked if the center would be open to Soviet journalists. Getting no immediate answer they asked again, and again. The Swiss, pressured by the Soviets, asked the same question of the U.S. team. Then the Soviets requested a phone line and a typewriter in the American press center, wherever it might be. Pravda, TASS, Izvestiya and the other Soviet outlets undoubtedly would fill and color their summit coverage with the overheard irreverences of American correspondents chortling over Reagan's malapropisms, Nancy's dresses and Secretary of State George Shultz...