Word: switchboard
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...down a towel before slapping the ball out and cheerfully going about his business. The next day, a bee stabbed him during his round, a portent of stings to come. While Stadler was persevering to a second-place finish worth $37,333.33, TV replayed his arboreal adventure. The switchboard, as they...
...lucky University of Southern California students who, unable to find campus housing, have been temporarily stashed in the fashionable Promenade Towers apartment complex three miles away. Housed two to a room in furnished apartments for $315 a month per student, the undergrads enjoy valet parking, a 24-hour switchboard, a health club, swimming pool, dry cleaner and market. "Just what we needed," exults U.S.C. Housing Director William Thompson...
...bore down steadily and struck the starboard side of the passenger liner. "I was in my cabin when the blow came," said Chief Purser Victor Prosvirnev. "There was a power blackout. The emergency diesel generator came on, but in two or three minutes power failed again as the feeder switchboard was submerged...
...mystery model, the spotlight was shared by the magazine that first got on to the story. TV crews and reporters swarmed over its modest, fifth-floor headquarters on Manhattan's lower Fifth Avenue. The rush of phone calls was so overwhelming at one point that the lights on the switchboard simply conked...
...love. Reason: minoxidil, which is otherwise used to treat high blood pressure, apparently can regrow hair on balding heads. When a Washington hospital announced three years ago that it was seeking gleaming pates on which to test the hair restorer, 10,000 eager volunteers called in, jamming the switchboard for three days and forcing the staff to use disaster control lines...