Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vital forces had been decaying in this manner for several weeks when a phone rang in my dark, airless, and bitterly cold cubicle one day in the first week of January. Overwhelmed as it was by the whistle of the arctic gale forcing its way through fist-size holes in the plastic wrap covering my window, the sound of the ringer at first hardly reached me through the pile of soiled rags into which I had burrowed for warmth...
Finally, however, I discerned the ringing and paused from chewing on stale walnut shells to answer the phone...
...South, it was a stunning blow," says Winbush. Reporter-Researcher Anne Hopkins finds June 5 to be the day that continues to haunt. Turning on the radio as she awoke that morning, she learned that Robert Kennedy had been shot. "As I began to absorb what was happening, the phone rang," she says. "It was my mother, calling to sing Happy Birthday...
...should not have to write this letter. In my phone conversation with Ross Forman regarding the Mainstage petition, I repeated several times that I was not involved in circulating or developing the petition--in fact, had only heard about it that very day--and that I would not take sides. I agreed to comment on the situation, but I did not wish to pit one organization against another because of my active involvement in each...
...been too busy snapping up stocks that he considered well worth buying at their depressed postcrash prices: Goodyear, Chrysler, Intel, Texas Instruments, Carnival Cruise Lines and Toys "R" Us, along with companies that most people have not yet heard of, such as Metro Mobile CTS, a cellular phone system, and Comcast, a cable-TV operator...