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...Approximately thirty seconds after Carl Yastrzemski hit his home run in the All-Star game in July, my phone rang. Of course it was Sam. "How do you like that Yaz?" he asked. "I could have told you it would take a Red Sox to get the American League going...
...INITIATION: I was given a code name. I was told that my real name would be known only to my contact and his supervisor, that I was always to use my code name when I called in. I was given a phone number-a special phone that rang directly on the desk of one of the agents. Reports were rendered both in oral and written fashion. I was given an emergency phone number and was told not to write down this number but to memorize it. That if the number were found on me it could be dangerous. They told...
...buzzer rang in the hallway, signalling for someone to let in Mr. Caball's daughter Marion, who is 25 and conservative...
Sometimes there are interruptions. At work on Up the Sandbox, Goldenberg received daily phone calls from Leading Lady Barbra Streisand. Since shooting sessions lasted far into the night, the actress rang punctually at 2:30 a.m. "Hum me the music for tomorrow," she would request. During one predawn chat, Streisand asked Goldenberg if the movie's final measures could be extended into a song. "Sure," he replied. "Have it by 4," purred La Barbra. "I wrote like mad," Goldenberg recalls. "When she called, I hummed her the tune. She liked it, and the next day we got the word...
...related etymologically to, among others, the French word cloche, meaning bell. In the United States in the 19th century, as in Europe, people were called to work by a bell in a bell tower. Then a clock was hung in the tower or steeple, and its loud chimes rang out the hours. In other, drabber places, there was the factory whistle. But such devices were not possible in big noisy cities. Thus, the coordination of work could be established only if men and women were ruled directly by time; in effect, modern industrialization became possible only after the mass production...