Word: intercom
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...whose potential for learning is unlimited." At meals he sits at attention and lifts his fork from plate to mouth in the rectangular movement of a robot; he shouts his response when asked a question. Until not so long ago, when entering his dormitory, he had to rasp in intercom fashion: "Sir, Air Force Academy jet 201K turning base, three green...
...that is only because it has taken him seven years (and another to go) to finish his dream house. A huge ranch house set on 25 acres, it is equipped with an electronic bar that mixes drinks to order ("I don't care for tending bar"), an elaborate intercom system (designed by Clint Jr.), and a swimming pool that could float the Queen Mary. He also owns Spanish Cay, an island in the Bahamas complete with private airstrip. A physical-culture faddist, Clint Jr. does 50 pushups, 50 knee bends and 50 situps every other...
...does much of its entertaining in the master bedroom, which is decorated like a living room (the beds are made up like studio couches), has a separate entrance. Parental authority is maintained through a master control panel that can turn out lights all over the house and through an intercom system over which parents can give orders-and avoid being answered back by flipping the switch...
...morning at Knightsbridge. when he received radio orders to go to Belgrave Square. As he swung his trim, tiny black-and-white Fiat Multipla into the square with its swank, yellow-white Regency houses, the enemy struck. "Baker four, I'm in trouble!" Buntin shouted over his intercom as a flotilla of tall, black, box-shaped London taxis bore down on him, their "For Hire" flags raised high, their exhaust pipes billowing clouds of diesel smoke, their cabbies shaking irate fists and shouting unprintable war cries...
...toward the captain's cabin, but was dropped with four bullets and died. In the wild shooting, an apprentice and a ship's doctor were wounded. Taking charge on the bridge, Henrique Galvão ordered the ship's engines stopped, then he picked up the intercom phone, got the captain and told him casually that he was taking over his ship. It was all over in ten minutes...