Word: switchboards
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...passively to his wandering verbiage, then walks wordlessly away from him. His wife attacks him savagely on the phone, and he opts not to go home again. He learns that the bar association has initiated measures to have him disbarred. He seizes a moment of sweaty oblivion with the switchboard operator, but that is the only kind of success left...
...this, a community of verbal men, things have come to a pretty pass when it becomes impossible to call any Harvard number for half an hour because the University switchboard is tied up. Yet this has happened with annoying regularity this week...
...line direct to Lyndon. Key Johnson aides carried electronic devices in their pockets that buzzed whenever there was a call from the boss-and there was a lot of buzzing. The contraptions were supposed to work only above ground and within a five-mile radius of the Pageant switchboard. But they were underrated: one White House staffer was in a basement barroom, enjoying a supposedly safe, subterranean snort, when his pocket buzzer suddenly went wild. Texas' Governor John Connally was a good 15 miles out of town when the same thing happened...
...time the Democrats started arriving in Atlantic City, Humphrey felt confident, had reserved a headquarters and communications center taking up a full floor of the Shelburne Hotel. But the word quickly came from the White House to "take it easy." Humphrey wound up sharing a modest, single switchboard headquarters with Gene McCarthy, who remained one of his few ostensible rivals for the Veepship...
...looked good." Then they ran into the Green Bay Packers and Halfback Paul ("Golden Boy") Hornung, back from a year in Coventry for betting on games. Hornung passed for one touchdown, booted two field goals and four extra points, and the Packers trounced the Giants, 34-10. The Giant switchboard lit up with wailing calls from fans who had seen it on TV. New York sportswriters loaded the papers with stories patiently reminding everyone that Star Quarterback Y. A. Tittle hadn't played much, and that Allie was "satisfied...