Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dawn in the Midwest, and Jane Craig, network-news producer on location, is already hard at work. She jogs outside her motel past a phalanx of newspaper machines and buys a copy of every available paper. She phones her colleagues awake in other motel rooms -- thank heaven, two of them are married, saves a call. She indulges a pal's dead-on impression of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then she unplugs the phone, sits on her bed and has a good cry: heaving shoulders, racking sobs, a face contorted into a bruised fist, a doll in tears because no one will...
Telephone information operators are not permitted to give out their names or answer non-phone number related questions. But they do have supervisors who can do the latter...
...Barry's voice is as sweet as her Boston accent is heavy. And when her phone rings, it's never good news. Amy puts together the Obituary page for The Boston Herald...
Which is apparently the same attitude Postal Service employees maintain. If you work at the Central Square Post Office, you know what it is to be busy all the time. Busy, busy, busy. So busy that you'll let the phone ring 14 times before you answer it. So busy that when the caller's questions are non-mail-service-oriented, you only have three things to say: "Yes, the Post Office is the most difficult job. I can't talk about it. I really don't have the time...
According to Hammerschmidt, fundraising has actually risen this year in the school's alumni "phone-a-thon." He said that less than 2 percent of alumni contacted refused to donate money because of the policy, and 99 percent of the angry letters his office has received are from non-donors...