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Word: overhearing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maintains a pace that is swift without bring pellmell. (I could do without the second intermission, too, which would leave the show in two sections of 60 and 75 minutes.) Particularly amusing are the two garden scenes, in which Benedick and Beatrice in turn are intentionally allowed to overhear the contrived conversation of others...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Much Ado About Nothing' Brightly Revived | 7/3/1969 | See Source »

...warn of possible threats from an enemy, whether it is intended to guide defensive surface-to-air missiles, or whether it is designed to control a network of offensive nuclear weapons. The aircraft's antennas, tuned to a wide range of radio frequencies used in military communications, can overhear conversations between major command posts 200 miles away and thus plot troop movements and combat readiness. Analysis of EC-121 data can reveal how much traffic is moving in and out of a military airfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Spy Planes: What They Do and Why | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...citizen and able to operate the equipment properly. Not that the briefcase portable-really a miniaturized car phone-is difficult to use. The user pushes a row of eleven buttons, one after another, until he finds an open channel (on a busy channel, he can overhear the conversation). He then holds down a transmission switch on the hand set and gives the mobile operator his call, which is completed over regular telephone lines. Incoming calls are announced by a buzzer and a light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Telephone: Hello, Mobile | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...assured him I would mail him a copy of my review, at which point, after looking to make sure no one could possibly overhear, he laid it on the line: "Do you think," he asked plaintively, "you might be able to call it 'camp...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Oh Dad Poor Dad Mama's Hung You In the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...York never goes entirely to sleep, and on at least one night you should stay up with her. Feel her pulse after the lights go on and remain after they go off again. Hang about a Village coffee house to overhear a cerebral young man intellectualize a girl from the New School into sharing his pad. Take in a wee-hours' movie bill (adults only) at one of the 42nd Street houses between Sixth and Eighth Avenues. Go for a sandwich at Reuben's (6 East 58th St.) and pick up dessert at the all-night vegetable stand east...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: THE CITY | 12/16/1964 | See Source »

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