Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Predictably, the loudest outcry came from Britain. THE DOG WILL DIE, WE CAN'T SAVE IT, wailed London's mass-minded Daily Mirror. Before BBC's announcer had even finished reading the Russian bulletin, more than 50 irate telephone calls began jamming the switchboard. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals averted complete telephone paralysis only when a quick-thinking operator urged all callers to "make your protest direct to the Soviet embassy, Bayswater 3628." The United Kingdom's second great humanitarian society, the National Canine Defense League, made a nationwide appeal...
Just inside the front door of Fuld Hall at the Institute of Advanced Study the switchboard was humming busily. "Professor Street from Harvard," the operator said. "He wants to talk to Doctor Yang...
...wondering what to do next and rattling on, and I make this innocent statement-something like: 'Hey, kids, I'll do your homework for you if you need help. Got lots of time.' " The invitation was no sooner out than the station's dormant night switchboard lit up like an electric train...
Middle-of-the-Road Survival. Last week the first, fat issue of the evening Citizen rolled off the presses in a converted warehouse. Within hours 8,000 newsstand copies had been snapped up; subscribers jammed the Citizen's switchboard with calls of congratulation. Said Kamin: "With the climate Hoiles created, we couldn't miss...
Jobs presently available are quite varied. There are openings tutoring various languages and other subjects--particularly for high school students; translation of scientific book reviews from foreign journals; typing; comptometer operation; acting as subjects for psychological experiments; lifeguards; tennis instructors; bus drivers; library workers; and switchboard operators...