Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strides so quickly down the red carpet that the entourage must scurry to keep up. Reagan is not a morning person. He wakens at an unpresidential 7:30 or 7:45 (vs. 6 a.m. for Jimmy Carter). Today's 8 o'clock call from the White House switchboard found the Reagans already risen from their king-size...
...about her overlong lectures and lack of humor. She does display a thoughtfulness about personal situations and an unaffected directness in talking with "little people." On the same day that she has purposely discomfited a minister, she will stop and have a cup of tea with the Downing Street switchboard operators. At a recent Tory conference, a 15-year-old lad made a speech that was a great success. When he was brought to meet the Prime Minister, she first asked if he had called his mother to tell her how the speech went. When he said no, she fished...
...mourners observed ten minutes of silence in his memory, New York's WCBS-TV cut away from the Philadelphia Eagles-St. Louis Cardinals football game to cover the mute tribute, its cameras panning over saddened faces in Central Park. Hundreds of angry callers jammed the station's switchboard to complain...
Though the blaze never spread above the second floor, it apparently knocked out the telephone switchboard and the fire alarm system. The 4,500 guests in their rooms thus received no warning. Those still sleeping were awakened, one by one, by screams and choking smoke. Says Keith Beverton of Woodland Hills, Calif.: "I opened my hotel room door and people were shouting, 'What should we do?' It was death, absolute death there. I closed the door but the air in my room was so thick I was having trouble breathing...
...away on a motor scooter. Di Leo died instantly. Within an hour, the neo-Fascist Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (NAR) claimed responsibility for the killing -and even phoned // Messaggero to brag about it. "This evening our commando executed Concina..." the caller began. "No, you son of a bitch," shouted the switchboard operator in tears. "You didn't kill Concina. You murdered someone else." While Maurizio Di Leo lay dead in the street last week, // Messaggero Reporter Michele Concina, author of several exposes on the NAR and the real target of the attack, was working quietly in his office...