Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than four years, Señora Zelmira Anchorena de Gainza Paz, now 81, has phoned Buenos Aires' La Prensa almost every week and demanded of the switchboard operator: "When are you going to give La Prensa back to the owners?" Last week, the switchboard girl answered: "Soon, Señora." Next day, by decree of President Aramburu, La Prensa was taken from the custody of the government, which had expropriated it, and returned to Owner Doña Zelmira and the Paz family. The paper's seizure by Perón, said the decree...
Mary Ruth Wolf, director of the entire volunteer set-up at Massachusetts General, feels that whether College volunteers are busy in the wards, at the telephone switchboard, or in the mail service, they are always acquiring what she calls "hospital sensitivity"--an ability to do the right thing at the right time under both emergency and ordinary conditions. It is this "sensitivity" which the program's pre-meds intently strive to attain...
...Washington the White House switchboard was flooded with incoming calls...
...rnberg, a few months ago, he ran newspaper ads announcing that anyone with troubles not involving such matters as a loan or a new apartment should call a certain number after 8 p.m. Within three days Father Leppich had four priests manning "God's Own Switchboard," as he calls it. Many of the callers are Protestants, and, for Catholics, the system often breaks the embarrassment and fear that may have kept them from confession for years. For absolution, penitents must talk directly to a priest; the church does not recognize telephone confessions. But, says Father Leppich of his telephone...
...Canadian and Polish) make their headquarters. Led by a gang of khaki-clad youngsters, refugees from North Viet Nam, armed with Tonkinese machetes, the crowd broke the closed gates of the bar and poured into the lobby like a tidal wave. Madame Geneviève Tardy, busy at the switchboard, fell bleeding under the blow of a chair...