Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...funny thing happens on the way to the "spiritual switchboard." Furlong escapes, thereby becoming a "freejack," a body that in its own time would be dead and buried had it not been transported into the future just seconds before actual death...
...knows well and calls by their first name. If a crisis erupts, Bush's instinct is to reach for a telephone. More trouble on the Turkey-Iraq border? Call Turgut Ozal. Another glitch in the trade talks? Call Toshiki Kaifu. For the past 2 1/2 years, the White House switchboard has often been more important to the conduct of U.S. foreign policy than the State Department, CIA and Strategic Air Command combined...
While federal scientists raced to analyze their samples last week, Americans flooded the White House switchboard with a few theories of their own about whatdidit -- everything from chemicals in the carpets to infectious pets. One citizen counseled the President to slather lemon juice over his throat and chest to soothe his hyperactive thyroid. Others admonished him to eat his hated broccoli since it contains small amounts of a naturally occurring substance that restrains the organ...
Nevertheless, the zoo's switchboard last week was jammed by callers offering support and money, and four newspapers put in bids to become sponsors. Whether this will raise the $23 million the zoo says it needs to survive is unclear. But Zoological Society director David Jones has put the closing plan on hold -- and he insists that the zoo never had any intention of slaughtering its animals...
...always so. The sleeves of her soft blouse meet the bean-size indentations on her arms: the dots connect to her years on life's underside, and she matter- of-factly recites the details. Beattie, 42, of French extraction, was raised by her mother, who worked as a switchboard operator. She tells of being sexually molested by a stranger at age four and drinking whiskey and blacking out by 12. By graduation, the onetime editor of the school newspaper was working as a legal secretary and using drugs, and was briefly a stripper. After an attempted burglary of a pharmacy...