Word: tappings
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...Broady's trial, the two provided the district attorney with his most damning evidence, the newspapers with enough gossip to keep East Side telephones, from PLaza I to BUtterfield 8, buzzing for weeks. Items: ¶ Blimpish John Jacob Astor testified that in 1954 he had hired Broady to tap the phone in his Fifth Avenue home in the hope of learning some of the secrets of Gertrude Gretsch Astor, his wife at that time. Mrs. Astor, meanwhile, was watching her husband with her own private...
...plan to tap the sentiments of the student body through polls and questionnaires," he continued, "and then forward the results to the President to aid him when the time comes for him to decide...
...Japanese also discovered that the Chinese had not come to Tokyo primarily to do business but to step up their propaganda campaign for removal of the U.N. and NATO embargoes on trade with Red China and to drive home Peking's pitch that the only way Japan can tap China's coal and iron is to trade strategic items, now banned under the embargoes, rather than consumer goods. Fair officials told would-be buyers that orders could not be taken, politely parried inquiries on prices, deliveries and quantities available. One reason was plain: few of the items...
...Government, "after about the third highball, listen to the businessman tell what rascals-congenital nitwits-they are in Washington. Tap that man on the shoulder" to come down to Washington, and "immediately you find you are in the presence of the indispensable man whose presence at his company is essential to its preservation...
...baseball uni form and he insisted on practicing sliding while he trotted to his position in the outfield. "There was a lunatic asylum across from the centerfield fence," he remembers happily. "Them guys in the loony bin always cheered when they saw me slide. But my manager used to tap his forehead and point at the asylum and say, 'It's only a matter of time. Stengel...