Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time he said he would get Gorbachev on the phone and tell him to send a couple of Harvard hockey players participating in a Moscow tournament home pronto...
Within 24 hours, Delvalle was under virtual house arrest. His phone lines were cut, and police appeared on the street when he lived. By Saturday morning an officer who arrived to tell Delvalle to leave the country found that he had fled. Later Delvalle claimed in a phone interview that he was still in Panama and vowed to fight...
...again before racing. Injuries, explained Chinese officials. Then there was the emigration of Soviets en masse from Calgary: 55 left prematurely, some of them ski jumpers returned to sender because, a Soviet official said, "as the competition was postponed, they could not participate anymore." Canadian immigration authorities ran a phone line for athletes who "needed help," but no applications for asylum were announced...
...many candidates are competing for attention that Southerners, like voters elsewhere, find it hard to sort them out. Only this week, as the television campaigns and phone banks go into overdrive, will Southerners begin to narrow their choices. Last week TIME correspondents visited several communities whose voters will decide the Super Tuesday battle...
...Senators ever dreamed of such an event, says Albert Gore Sr., the only one of the three still alive. At 80 he is a cheery and tireless campaigner for his son. "I've been through 35 states, and I have 13 to go," he said over the phone from New Orleans last week. Then he reminisced...