Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Radcliffe recently announced an increase in its police force; the 'Cliffe hired several new watchmen, and referred others from inside to outside duty. The college is also considering the purchase of radios to put foot patrolman in constant communication with the Harvard switchboard...
...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...
...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...