Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Loughridge said he was "very, very psyched" about spending a year in England. "When they called and asked 'Would you like to go to Cambridge,' I screamed into the phone," he said...
Weiss was expecting a phone call, but instead was surprised by a knock on her door as a delegation of 8 members of the 18 member selection committee came to personally congratulate...
...magic of the night and revealing a scene, more resembling a battlefield, of trampled grass, empty bottles, broken glasses, upturned chairs, errant garments, and every sort of unattractive human debris." The revelers emerge the worse for wear. Gerard Hernshaw, the acknowledged leader of this elite band, has learned by phone that his ill father has died overnight. Gerard's oldest and closest friends, Jenkin Riderhood and Duncan Cambus, are drunk and disoriented. Although Duncan seldom needs a reason for such a condition, in the aftermath of this midsummer night's madness he can offer a good one. The dance...
...incident seemed to revivify Bush and galvanize his campaign. "We're getting phone calls now from fence sitters we've been after for weeks," said Bill Cahill, a Bush staffer in New Hampshire. At a campaign stop in South Dakota, Bush found dozens of his listeners wearing lapel buttons with a diagonal slash across "Dan Rather." At Bush's national headquarters, an aide scurried through the lobby with a long memo draft titled "Reaping the Benefits of the Rather Interview...
...Texas court. Icahn got his chance to help break the impasse in December, when Bankruptcy Judge Howard Schwartzberg ruled that Texaco's shareholders could strike their own deal with Pennzoil, with or without the approval of Texaco management. Before long, spurred in part by Icahn's repeated phone calls and meetings with Pennzoil officials and Texaco investors, the two sides agreed to the $3 billion settlement...