Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individuals being investigated - with the aid of a college switchboard operator - was a professor at a Philadelphia area college who was generally considered to be a "radical...
...spoke in "a low, hard tone," recalled the operator on duty at the Capitol switchboard. His message was equally ominous: "This building will blow up in 30 minutes. You will get many calls like this, but this one is real." At 1:32 a.m., 33 minutes after the phone warning, a dynamite bomb demolished an unmarked, out-of-the-way men's room in the Capitol basement. It was only the fourth time in history that protesters had brought violence to the domed symbol of U.S. democracy...
...often the only way of reaching a G.I. client. As for being denied military phones, Aronson introduced a newspaper clipping about a whorehouse that had such a phone and added that to reach Client McLemore's military attorney he had had to place 233 calls to the military switchboard-only four of which ultimately got through to the right man. With all the obstacles, L.M.D.C. lawyers saw McLemore for the first time only one hour before going into the courtroom...
...last Friday, near the end of a normal working day, an operator on the Harvard switchboard heard the news that others had only dreamed of. Lamont Library was going to explode...
...usually once a week), TeleSessions calls the subscriber to connect him with as few as ten or as many as two dozen other participants. For a fee of $2 an hour-long-distance participants must call in themselves and also pay long-distance rates-TeleSessions hosts provide a special switchboard, coordinate and schedule each session and make the telephonic introductions of each newcomer to the group. They also screen out the cranks, disconnect the obstreperous and occasionally cut in to redirect a faltering discussion. An actual moderator, TeleSessions discovered, is unnecessary...