Word: switchboard
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Earlier, when told that Nixon was critically ill, California Governor Ronald Reagan gracelessly said: "Maybe that will satisfy the lynch mob." In fact, the hospital switchboard was jammed with sympathetic calls, and its mailroom flooded with get-well messages from across the country. One room had to be set aside to contain the flowers...
...startled-her viewers by demonstrating a breast examination (fully clothed) on the Today show (see TELEVISION). Doctors' offices, hospitals and clinics found themselves inundated with requests for examinations. Telephone operators at the American Cancer Society in Manhattan lost count of the requests for information that poured into their switchboard...
...Artesia, about 16 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Shortly after her mother died, she was nurse again to her father, who had contracted silicosis as a copper miner. On her own at 17, just as the Depression was beginning, she took on a series of jobs- everything from telephone-switchboard operator to $7-a-day movie extra - to put herself through the University of Southern California...
Raymond A. Hay, 45. A persuasive salesman, the head of U.S. operations for Xerox Corp. talks with everyone from switchboard operators to branch executives while making his cross-country rounds. Among the divisions Hay oversees from headquarters in Stamford, Conn., are Xerox's Information Systems Group, Information Technology Group and Business Development Group. Born...
...wife or someone else, was the sense of life. There's a life to it. It's exciting as hell when you finish some good ones. About work, there's a wild humor sometimes. Mostly, the self-contradictions in people's thoughts, psyches, about work. Like the elderly switchboard operator in the motel saying, "Oh, I love my work. Oh, I'm happy, I'm very happy with my work. These young girls, they're not as conscientious as I am. Once, though, at two in the morning"--let's say she worked for Holiday Inn--"I'd answer...