| 单词 | switchboard |
| 例句 | The switchboard put her through to a helpful nasal voice, and then the connection was broken and she had to start again. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “He went home,” the state police switchboard informed him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Proteins enabled chemical reactions, speeding and controlling the pace of biochemical processes, thereby acting as the switchboards of the biological world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I’m looking for an employee of yours,” he said to the severe, gray-haired switchboard woman. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The only plan I can come up with is to do everything at once and hope that the teenagers at the Motel 6 switchboard can be trusted to serve as my answering machine. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z May perform field lineman, switchboard operator, or other communication duties. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z And after Punkin' was placed in an institution, Mary had put in long hours working at the Duke University switchboard, a tedious job that paid low wages. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In those days, phone calls were manually patched through by an operator at a switchboard, with long-distance calls often relayed through multiple switchboards. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Maddie turned back to her switchboard and coolly plugged in the front cord. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z At first I suspected the operator, at her switchboard, might be listening, but she just went on plugging and unplugging her little tubes without batting an eye. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The National Weather Service switchboard took more phone calls in that week than ever in its history, with nearly every caller asking if the skies would clear for Seabiscuit’s run at the Handicap that Saturday. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I called Charles on the pay phone, but the hospital switchboard wouldn’t put me through: it was past visiting hours, she said, everyone was sleeping. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m the registrar, not the switchboard. But I might know. Who is it?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Rick dialed, presently had the police switchboard operator. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z There came the switchboard, the nasal assistant, a pause and the crackle of the long-distance line, then Jack’s neutral tone. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Then it was Thanksgiving week and when I called, the switchboard told me no one was answering in her office at all, so now I’m calling more than a week later than I’d planned. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z An overloaded switchboard, a dirty game of Twister everywhere you turned. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “You missed the vidcall this morning. Miss Wild told me; it came through the switchboard exactly at nine.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I dashed across the street to the newspaper, threw open the door, and rushed into the telephone office, where a startled Maggie Medlin was eating a sandwich at the switchboard. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z We waited for Mr. Lias at the drug store because Cold Sassy’s post office was in there, a big pigeonhole desk over where the telephone central switchboard used to be. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Commons was deserted except for a couple of haggard old janitors and the red-wigged lady who sat at the switchboard and knitted all weekend, paying no attention to the incoming calls. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I phoned the switchboard and left a message for him to expect me at one the next day. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Let me speak to Inspector Bryant,” he said to the police switchboard operator Miss Wild. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The parents' habit was to call us on Friday or Saturday nights around ten right before the switchboard closed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She would talk herself past the terse woman on the switchboard, and the pompous young fellow in the outer office, and she would reassure her husband that there was no need to feel guilt. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They had moved the switchboard to Miss Lucille’s house so that she could operate it nights as well as days. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He had a switchboard in front of him with wires and holes, just like the switchboards in old American movies. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He found Riptide in his pocket again, uncapped his sword, and lunged for the switchboard. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The Head Nurse, who was standing by a switchboard at the other end of the room, pressed down a little lever. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z For the next several days, Deborah called Hopkins again and again, telling the switchboard operators, “I’m calling for my cancer results.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Lawrence called the main switchboard at Hopkins, saying, “I’m calling about my mother, Henrietta Lacks—you got some of her alive in there.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Scalding and propulsive, Ms. Fuller always seems to be testing the limits of her own power — as if seeing if she can single-handedly overload your ear’s switchboard. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z You know the Renard Parish chapter switchboard must be lit up like Christmas. "True Blood" 4x11: The witch is dead? 2011-09-05T12:06:00Z At the beginning he tried to stop officials being patched in to calls, particularly those with Gordon, and he tried to make his own phone calls without going through "switch", the No 10 switchboard. 'Tony Blair called back to see if I had blown myself up' 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z Dressed casually and with the sunny demeanor of a favorite high school teacher, Schoettler talks about American women who served in uniform at the front in 1917 and 1918 as bilingual switchboard operators. ‘The Hello Girls’: Little-known chapter of war comes to life by telling it straight In Schoettler’s account, Banker and her operators were set up with portable switchboards in barracks near enough to one battlefield to be issued helmets and gas masks. ‘The Hello Girls’: Little-known chapter of war comes to life by telling it straight In the next year’s “Osaka Elegy,” her character, a switchboard operator, endures a similar downward spiral, becoming her boss’s mistress as she struggles to support her family. Isuzu Yamada, Actress Who Worked With Kurosawa, Dies at 95 2012-07-15T22:57:26Z I called the main switchboard at the Chicago Police Department and asked for Sergeant Chuziki. R. Kelly and the Damage Done 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z And how was she going to operate the RTÉ switchboard if she didn’t know whether her own radio was on or off? The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z Then there was the time he posed as Mr. Cattelan on television and the station’s switchboard became jammed with viewers complaining that an impostor was on the air. Massimiliano Gioni, of Venice Biennale 2013-05-23T12:00:01Z This leads into her key scene, a 10-minutes switchboard sequence where she speaks far less. Here are 6 great film performances you missed in 2020 – and how to watch them 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z “At the KJR offices in West Seattle, the receptionist sat before the switchboard and punched and talked to people who couldn’t believe the news,” Lacitis wrote. How The Seattle Times covered Elvis Presley's death in 1977 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Though Miriam was a telephone operator, as depicted in the movie, she wasn’t calling to check in on Bernie from the switchboard because she was home with the flu for the duration of the storm. The True Story Behind 'The Finest Hours' 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Here, in short, is a lost world of cap guns and roadsters and telephone switchboards; of diners, carnivals and Sunday picnics — but also one of murderous bootleggers and young polio victims needing iron lungs. ‘Nothing Is Impossible: Further Problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne,’ by Edward D. Hoch The 1968 book, which is still being sold today, includes some occupations that don’t exist or just barely do, such as the switchboard operator and the secretary taking dictation from the executive. 100 books that shaped work in America 2013-12-31T21:52:11Z The next day, television critics delighted in telling how the CBS switchboard had lighted up with calls from viewers incensed at the interruption of “Dallas.” How CBS stole the show in covering Tiananmen Square As someone who has grown increasingly sceptical of whether radio stations' switchboards light up as frequently as they claim, it pleases me that Juice's switchboard does boast lights, all of which are now flashing. A day in the life of Brighton's Juice FM 2013-05-11T04:59:00Z She was a switchboard operator and a bookstore clerk, and then managed a gift shop in Santa Barbara. Diana Serra Cary, Child Star ‘Baby Peggy’ of Silent Films, Dies at 101 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Phone calls back then were patched from one operator to the next, so it was a problem if the soldiers at the switchboards couldn’t speak French and communicate with the local operators. Review: ‘The Hello Girls’ Answered the Call in World War I 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z The "switchboard" resets itself on every wrong note, but if the correct tune is played, the final puff of air travels through the board to unlock the secret drawer. With right tune, musical desk reveals its secrets 2011-08-05T09:39:08Z The New York Times called him a human switchboard. Tom Luddy, a Behind-the-Scenes Force in Cinema, Dies at 79 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z And if this work activates instruments like lights on a switchboard, then there was not a dull bulb on Friday. Review: Igor Levit Arrives at the Philharmonic, at Last 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z Constantly, wherever I went, whenever I walked into a room, these little lights would go on on a switchboard in my head.” Neil Strauss: 'My thinking was: If this woman’s going to be naked with me – I must be OK. It doesn’t last’ 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z With its glistening 19th century steam generators and its marble switchboard, it’s heaven for steampunks. 9 Little Known Places to Visit in New York City (That Aren’t Tourist Traps) 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, fans jammed arena switchboards worldwide securing tickets to her tour. Rihanna: evolution of a style icon 2012-07-17T16:37:03Z It was like a picture from one of those old movies, where they have a switchboard and the lights started lighting up all over. Up Close: A Dermatologist to the Stars Calls on Them to Help Haitian Amputees 2010-05-26T20:56:00Z “Hopkins,” an operatic parallel to Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis,” depicted the technological wonders of the factory, equating its switchboards with temple altars. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z In that sense, these communications are not unlike the streams of calls that come into the company’s switchboard this time of year from customers recalling favorite products. L. L. Bean Creates a New Team to Keep Up on Facebook and Twitter 2011-12-07T23:42:22Z My maternal grandmother began her career as a switchboard operator for the local phone company when she was a teenager. She’s the breadwinner and OK with it: A Gen X perspective for “conflicted” millennial women 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z While still in high school, she worked as a switchboard operator to help support her family. Mary Higgins Clark active as ever at age 85 2013-04-11T11:46:10Z He employs lengthy tracking shots, but also fixes his camera on Fay at the switchboard for an extended scene that is quite gripping. Amazon's "Vast of Night" is a Richard Linklater, sci-fi, "All the President's Men" thriller mash-up 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z The most enduring of those, as a switchboard operator for the United Jewish Appeal, was, she said, “good voice training for an actress.” Helen Hanft, Master of Camp Way Off Broadway, Dies at 79 2013-06-06T03:05:01Z At 10:48 p.m., a Capitol switchboard operator fielded a call. How terrorists became the unspoken architects of the Capitol 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z His father was a TV repairman; his mother was a switchboard operator. Books of The Times: H?sker D? From the Inside, in a Memoir 2011-06-14T16:10:39Z One of the oldest items in the space is a switchboard from 1928. A Museum for K.G.B. Aficionados? Da! 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z If newspaper publishers, travel agents and switchboard operators ignored that message, it wasn’t for lack of clarity. Perspective | ‘Who Moved My Cheese’ became a monster hit. Twenty years later, we’re still wondering why. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z In front of me was a George Nelson-designed desk and a plug switchboard and typewriter. | Q&A: Sitting Pretty on a Cult Classic 2012-11-07T23:51:47Z And he’s called the White House switchboard, as well as left a message with Trump’s head of security, to volunteer himself for duty. ‘Trump’s job creation certainly helped me!’ says a Donald Trump impersonator who is making bank 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z If eavesdropping on a switchboard is your idea of drama, then "China Doll" is the play of your dreams. In David Mamet's perplexing 'China Doll,' Al Pacino can only roar weakly 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z We tried to build drama in scenes where you watch Everett thread a reel to reel tape over again or Fay working a switchboard. Amazon's "Vast of Night" is a Richard Linklater, sci-fi, "All the President's Men" thriller mash-up 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z It tells the story of a switchboard operator's adventures in search of her grandmother. Karen Green on life after suicide 2011-04-09T23:04:02Z Wantee was an ordinary London girl – she worked on the Marks & Spencer switchboard – and she knew nothing of avant-garde art. Kurt Schwitters: the modernist master in exile 2013-01-06T00:06:24Z The telephone switchboards will close between 8pm and 8am and the few remaining pager services, which dominated MPs' communications throughout the 1990s, will be decommissioned. Public sector cuts: where they will hit 2011-03-25T08:30:00Z “When we aired it for the first time, the switchboard just lit up,” he said. An Adagio for Strings, and for the Ages 2010-03-05T19:18:00Z "Can we just try that one more time with the orb, and then we'll make sure the crew gets some healthy nourishment?" he said to some guys at a switchboard. Jason Mraz, a 31-date concert tour ahead, insists he's retiring type 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z For LBC's producers, I'm sure this is considered the "quality stuff" talk radio is made of: snarling, hard-nosed, cheapshot punditry that gets the switchboard buzzing and radio reviewers irate within three minutes of airing. Call Clegg – radio review 2013-05-10T05:59:04Z At one point, he humorously compares his role to that of "a switchboard operator, connecting long-distance messages from one end of the Nasielsk Diaspora to another." 'Three Minutes in Poland' offers glimpse of world lost to Holocaust 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z I was reduced to phoning Polo to complain to anyone who would listen: the managing director, the vice-president, the switchboard operator. Poems on the Underground: copycats and controversies 2013-01-09T06:10:01Z I was one of the three switchboard operators, the one in the middle. Kristen Schaal: The toast of American comedy 2010-10-15T23:03:00Z Charlotte Green famously lost all self-control when reading the news, prompting listeners to besiege BBC switchboards with requests for a replay. Jim Naughtie wasn't the first presenter to let slip with a four-letter foul-up 2010-12-06T20:00:00Z Without a name you are lost in switchboard hell, passed from one extension to another as you try to identify the correct department. 'My NHS hell waiting for surgery and information' 2023-10-28T04:00:00Z Written while she worked as a switchboard operator, it topped the Swedish charts, launching a career that made her a star in her home country. Abba's Agnetha Fältskog returns with solo song: 'I didn't know if I could do this' 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Let’s not forget she was a mathematician, and here she was working at a job that was one step above a switchboard operator. Meet the Woman Who Supervised the Computations That Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Police forces across the UK have warned that a new feature on some Android phones is plaguing switchboards with inadvertent "silent" 999 calls. Police warn Android phone users over 999 call feature 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z In a sense, he is now serving as a kind of grievance switchboard for current and former employees of the news network, many people who have spoken with him said. Could Jeff Zucker Fix CNN? He Seems to Think So. 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Welton’s father said his son had even called the White House switchboard, according to the affidavit. U.S. expatriate charged with threatening to kill GOP senators, staffers over junk email 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z She played a faceless switchboard operator on “Richard Diamond, Private Detective,” from which she was bounced when she asked for more money, and a typical assortment of starlet roles on television and movies. With her widower's help, a splendid new documentary explores Mary Tyler Moore's private side 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z Greeting students was Sherry Thompson, 43, a former hospital switchboard operator and manager of a local inn who joined a company that provides services such as transportation for vice presidents of major oil companies. Oil boom transforms Guyana, prompting a scramble for spoils 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z His team is now looking at how these little switchboards can be controlled by the brain. Your Brain Could Be Controlling How Sick You Get—And How You Recover 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z “The Times’ switchboard received numerous calls from residents in all parts of the city reporting what they described as winter scenes ‘just like back east,’” one story from 1949 read. Snowballs at the Hollywood sign: Does it signal the biggest SoCal snow event in decades? 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z She studied journalism at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro while working as a switchboard operator. Glória Maria, Who Broke Barriers in Brazilian Television, Dies at 73 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Her parents separated when she was young, and she was raised in nearby Santa Maria by her mother, who worked the night shift as a switchboard operator and encouraged her daughter’s early interest in dance. Jean Veloz, celebrated 1940s Lindy Hop dancer, dies at 98 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z The town hall’s switchboard was flooded by so many furious calls it was shut down. Victor Hugo Statue Takes a Prominent Place in France’s Debate on Race 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z The Moog, which looked like a telephone switchboard, was heavy but mobile. Herbert Deutsch, transformative figure in electronic music, dies at 90 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z A telephone switchboard with cables going from one point to another is an obsolete technology but what is still visible in that technology are the lines of connection between different people. Why artist William Kentridge is embracing shadows in his new Broad show 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Her skills as a trained switchboard operator meant her young age was quietly ignored. Marie Scott: 'I could hear men screaming' 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z A military field switchboard warns: “Attention, your enemy is listening.” Russian threats revive old nuclear fears in central Europe 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Here, a semi-circular control desk and two long banks of switchboards have been painstakingly preserved. Battersea Power Station opens after decades of decay 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z When Hong Kong on Sept. 26 finally dropped its dreaded hotel quarantine rule, so many travel-starved Hong Kongers raced to book flights that the Cathay Pacific airline website and switchboard were overwhelmed. Opinion | What we can learn from the people who are voting with their feet 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z Riggleman said he had a "real a-ha moment" when he saw "that the White House switchboard had connected to a rioter's phone" while the Capitol attack took place. “The Monster”: Ex-Jan. 6 investigator sounds alarm over mysterious WH call — here’s what we know 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z In an excerpt released ahead of his interview on “60 Minutes,” Riggleman revealed that the White House switchboard connected a phone call to a Capitol rioter on Jan. 6, 2021. Ex-staffer’s unauthorized book about Jan. 6 committee rankles members 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Grossi said that recent explosions near an electrical switchboard caused the shutdown of a transformer and two backup transformers. Shelling Threatens Ukrainian Nuclear Plant, and U.N. Pleads for Access 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z Sgt Turner also kept working, while Sgt Mortimer relayed messages at the telephone switchboard before rushing outside with a set of red flags to mark where unexploded devices had fallen on the airfield. Biggin Hill: 'Mum was embarrassed about her WW2 medal' 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z Secret Service alleges that John Andrew Bazor Jr., 37, of Mobile, called the White House switchboard on July 10 and made the death threat. Alabama man charged in Biden death threat 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z He often used multiple cellphones, going around White House protocols and gatekeepers who would have preferred the calls come through a secure switchboard. Trump called member of White House support staff amid Jan. 6 probe 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z “You get a real aha moment when you see that the White House switchboard had connected to a rioter’s phone while it’s happening,” Riggleman told “60 Minutes.” Ex-staffer’s unauthorized book about Jan. 6 committee rankles members 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Even the ability to call 911 isn’t a good reason, because an entire school full of people calling at once could overload a switchboard. Even after shootings, experts warn against cellphones in schools 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z After graduating from high school, Ms. Henderson worked as a switchboard operator, saleswoman and hotel clerk. Hazel Henderson, environmental activist and futurist author, dies at 89 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Many of those were first-time buyers who flooded A.T.F.’s switchboard and email servers for information about how to buy a gun legally, and which weapons were best for personal protection, one A.T.F. official said. U.S. Gun Production Triples Since 2000, Fueled by Handgun Purchases 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Viewers flooded the NBC switchboard to vent outrage over missing the game’s exciting ending, prompting the network to issue an apology. Daryle Lamonica, Hard-Throwing Quarterback, Is Dead at 80 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z "People claimed she was born in the city, that she was an operator at the switchboard of the telephone exchange and that she won a contest at Firpo's restaurant." Merle Oberon: India's forgotten Hollywood star 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z However, multiple sources familiar with Mr. Trump’s phone behavior and the White House switchboard records told CNN that the more likely explanation is far less nefarious. House Jan. 6 committee members insist Trump call logs suspicious; report undercuts coverup talk 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The remaining six pages are titled “Presidential Call Log” and have information provided by the White House switchboard and aides, including phone numbers and notes on the time and duration of some calls. Jan. 6 White House logs given to House show 7-hour gap in Trump calls 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The logs appear to have captured calls that were routed through the White House switchboard. Call logs underscore Trump’s efforts to sway lawmakers on Jan. 6 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z An operator connected calls by putting the two ends of a cord into the correct places on the switchboard. myWorld: The Growth of Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Calls were flooding into the switchboard, and senior staff members were receiving a flurry of voice messages and emails to their work accounts. This hospital tried to save a man with covid. Then the threats started. 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The experts said Mr. Trump placed calls through the White House switchboard while he was in the residence but rarely did so while he was elsewhere. House Jan. 6 committee members insist Trump call logs suspicious; report undercuts coverup talk 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Occasionally, when he made outbound calls, the number would show up as the White House switchboard’s number, according to a former Trump Cabinet official. Jan. 6 White House logs given to House show 7-hour gap in Trump calls 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Three former officials who worked under Trump said that he mostly used the switchboard operator for outgoing calls when he was in the residence. Call logs underscore Trump’s efforts to sway lawmakers on Jan. 6 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z He often eschewed the White House switchboard, using his own cellphone or those of his aides to communicate. Trump Flouted Presidential Records Law. Will He Face Consequences? 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z The call logs obtained by the committee document who was calling the White House switchboard, and any calls that were being made from the White House to others. Investigators find gaps in White House logs of Trump’s Jan. 6 calls 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z The sources also said the six pages of White House switchboard records for Jan. 6, 2021, are complete “based on an official review of White House records.” House Jan. 6 committee members insist Trump call logs suspicious; report undercuts coverup talk 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z According to the affidavit, he allegedly made additional threats online from Jan. 25 to Jan. 27 and called the White House switchboard on Jan. 27 and threatened Biden. Mental health treatment suggested for Kansas man accused of threatening Biden 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Trump checked with the White House switchboard operator at 10:40 a.m. to make sure a message had been left for McConnell. Call logs underscore Trump’s efforts to sway lawmakers on Jan. 6 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The next day, Merryman called the White House switchboard and said he was coming there to “cut off the head of the snake/anti-Christ,” the FBI affidavit said. 2 men charged with making separate threats to kill president 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z He repeatedly denied that the serpent was a reference to the president, but on Thursday, Merryman called the White House, where a switchboard operator said he explicitly threatened Biden. Kansas man who made Biden death threat said he was ‘coming for’ the president, Secret Service alleges 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z Some contacted Meadows, while others tried to reach Trump through the White House switchboard. Jan. 6 committee focused on Trump’s silence as it weighs criminal referral 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z If music has a central switchboard, then Tyler, The Creator has run in, unplugged all the connections and shoved the cables back in random order. The 21 best albums and songs of 2021 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Larry: I consider us to be a switchboard operator; we send you where you want to be. Meet the Nvidia and AMD GPU hunters who turned battling bots into a full-time job 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z When Vice President Kamala Harris toured an American military cemetery outside Paris this week, she stopped at the grave of a woman from Oakland who had served as a switchboard operator during World War I. On trip to France, Kamala Harris is introducing herself to the world in personal terms 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Among the more than 1,500 graves was that of Inez Crittenden, a World War I switchboard operator from Harris’ hometown of Oakland. Wooing France: Kamala Harris to meet Macron after sub spat 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z It was from a man who said he was an operator at the White House switchboard, calling to inform Hickman that the president wanted to speak to him. Warnings of Jan. 6 violence preceded the Capitol riot When Steil called the White House switchboard, he soon found himself unexpectedly on the line with Trump himself, urging the president to send U.S. Kyle Rittenhouse and the New Era of Political Violence 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z On Monday afternoon, a switchboard operator at the hospital said he was not listed among current patients. Alex Murdaugh resigning from family law firm, entering rehab after shooting 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Where C89.5 is all dance music, all of the time, other stations will fluctuate between genres, depending on the time of day, or on who is managing the switchboard. Kids are learning, having fun — and maybe even finding a career — at Nathan Hale’s radio station 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z Moreover, most people “overwhelmingly prefer to interact with a live person when dealing with customer service centers,” meaning consumers despise those god-awful automated switchboards beloved by penny-pinching businesses. Column: Some companies think customers are OK with lousy service. Think again 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z Some businesses legitimately use caller ID to show their switchboard number or toll-free number, rather than a specific department or extension. How Do You Stop Robocalls? 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Hickman said the switchboard operator left a voice mail message saying Mr. Trump wished to speak with him and asking him to call back. Trump Is Said to Have Called Arizona Official After Election Loss 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z Early on in the blockade, the government had cut all phone lines to the switchboard, isolating the Mille Collines from the outside world. He Was the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda.’ Now He’s Accused of Terrorism. 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Authorities said Reeves made multiple phone calls to the White House switchboard between Jan. 28 and Feb. 1 and made threats against the president and others who were not identified in the news release. North Carolina man accused of threatening Biden over phone 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z Just ring the hospital switchboard and ask for the nursing station assigned to your loved one. Love, remotely: How to oversee relative’s hospital care from afar 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z The peaceful protest spread to a takeover of several campus buildings, with students sleeping overnight in hallways and manning the college switchboard. Samuel L. Myers Sr., leader in Black higher education who oversaw Bowie State protests, dies at 101 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Four nights later, the White House switchboard operator called Mr. Hickman again, he said. Trump Is Said to Have Called Arizona Official After Election Loss 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z But over the course of the last century, researchers have turned the insect — known to science as Drosophila melanogaster — into a sort of genetic switchboard. Fruit Flies Are Essential to Science. So Are the Workers Who Keep Them Alive. 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z The challenge prompted a flood of calls into the statehouse switchboard. Alvin Holmes dies at 81; had served decades in Alabama House 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z It was also the year the automated switchboard was born. Column: 'Unusually high call volume'? You're being lied to, say experts 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z So many people called that they ended up shutting down the Congressional switchboard. Count Every Vote got its power from the Black Lives Matter movement 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z A little over an hour later, the switchboard lit up again and Davis answered another call. 911 dispatcher in Florida saves 2 lives in 1 shift 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z Private generator cables and switchboards in the centre of Aakkar; and a set of generators in Beirut. The Lebanese economy in freefall – a photo essay 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z As the substitute host on a morning radio program, former switchboard operator Beverly Ross becomes a local sensation when she changes the format to hot boogie-woogie. Movies on TV this week: 'Gandhi' on Showtime; 'Giant' on TCM 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z I’m not saying automated switchboards should be done away with, despite their overwhelming unpopularity among consumers. Column: 'Unusually high call volume'? You're being lied to, say experts 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z And without energy for switchboards, mobile phone coverage was cut in parts of the country. Blackouts darken misery of Lebanon's economic collapse 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z A telephone message left with the switchboard there seeking comment from public information officials was not immediately returned Tuesday night. Attorneys for woman charged with lying to grand jury in 2001 Thomas Wales killing want indictment tossed 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Topuz, a Turkish citizen who started working at the consulate more than three decades ago as a switchboard operator, was convicted of “aiding an armed terrorist organization,” according to the state-run Anadolu news agency. Turkish court sentences U.S. Consulate employee to prison 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z And once Everett is at the radio station and Fay is plugged in at the switchboard, they hear a strange sound interrupting the transmission. Review: ‘The Vast of Night’ is a cunning lo-fi sci-fi noir 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Without family around her, she threw herself into her work as a switchboard operator at University College Hospital in London - often working extra shifts and long days. Behind each statistic, there was a life 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z A third party had called and spoken to a switchboard operator who was reading from a list that showed no openings. Quite possibly the rudest club in the world? - Golf Digest 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z One Sunday morning, a frustrated DeWine called the White House and left a message on the switchboard, appealing for help. As Washington stumbled, governors stepped to the forefront 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Adjacent to it was a building housing one of the capital’s main switchboards. The unfinished Baghdad Tower is a metaphor for a broken country 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Minutes later, Specter’s chief of staff Scott Hoeflich got a call on his cellphone from the White House switchboard. Joe Biden pitches himself as the ‘been there, done that’ candidate as economic and health crises dominate the presidential race 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z For much of her career, she worked as a telephone switchboard operator at a television station. Two sisters were inseparable for 9 decades. Now the coronavirus lockdown keeps them apart 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z At 21 years old, Jade Brooks pulls in her family’s only full-time salary, working at a hospital switchboard. April 1, rent’s due: Many struggle to pay in virus outbreak 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z This left Mr. Hutchinson with one option: calling her room through the main switchboard. ‘A Heart-Wrenching Thing’: Hospital Bans on Visits Devastate Families 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z But to pay the bills she worked as switchboard operator, secretary for an advertising agency and Pan Am flight attendant. Appreciation: Mary Higgins Clark and her endearing women in peril 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z The “Silent Cabin,” the soundproof room where it is housed, withstood years of damage and protected the transmitting switchboards and regulators, the company wrote in court documents. Relic hunters plan to retrieve Titanic radio that relayed ship’s final pleas for help 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z In recent weeks, she has become something of a switchboard operator, receiving messages on Facebook from inmates across the state. ‘Please Try to Help Us’: Conversing With Mississippi Inmates on a Contraband Phone 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z But the behavioral switchboard was unable to explain the ability to correctly choose a shortcut right off the bat without having first experienced that specific path. In Search of the Brain’s Social Road Maps 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z And if there are any “switchboard operators” left, they are exempt as well. The Minimum Wage Is Rising, but These Workers Are Being Left Behind 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z By 1979, he married his high school sweetheart, Teresa, and became a Prince George’s County public safety employee as a switchboard operator before becoming a dispatcher for the fire department. Face of Prince George’s County Fire Department retires after 26 years as spokesman 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z Crooks dupe a switchboard operator; her wire-wise boyfriend saves the day. Movies on TV this week: 'The Deer Hunter,' 'White Christmas' and more 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z A spokesman for NBC in Chicago said his office handled more than 200 phone calls while “a couple of thousand” other callers tied up the switchboard. NFL At 100-AP Was There-The Heidi Game 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z In this view, the brain operates like a telephone switchboard that maintains only reliable connections between incoming calls from our sense organs and outgoing messages to the muscles. In Search of the Brain’s Social Road Maps 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z She told the broadcaster that she felt she had been “brushed off” as if she was “one of Kennedy’s girlfriends showing up to his White House switchboard.” Jennifer Arcuri Says Boris Johnson Cast Her Aside Like a ‘One-Night Stand’ 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z When he later played the song on a community radio station in Melbourne, the switchboard lit up. Archie Roach: 'You can reach the darkest point in our life and come back, and come good' 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z He delivered a practiced routine about his “iPhone 11”—a switchboard the size of a microwave—before growing suddenly serious. How Trump’s Emissaries Put Pressure on Ukraine’s New President 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The calls made it impossible for the switchboard to handle any outgoing calls during that period. NFL At 100-AP Was There-The Heidi Game 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Don’t even get me started on the evil of automated switchboards. Newsletter: Hate lousy service? You're not alone (not that this changes anything) 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z He earned this place of prestige selling a switchboard to Ridgewood Groves in Seminole on his first day. Man finds voice, community with Toastmasters International 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z Having sneaked past the switchboard operators at BBC One's Saturday morning show Going Live, he was allowed to ask sibling pop band Five Star a question. Boy who swore at Five Star on kids' TV apologises 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z “Yes,” she replied – and she had eavesdropped, not an uncommon practice in an era when hotel phone calls were routed through a switchboard. From mind control to murder? How a deadly fall revealed the CIA’s darkest secrets 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z A harried repairman, who helped restore the switchboard at NBC, said at 10:30 p.m., NFL At 100-AP Was There-The Heidi Game 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z In Price’s radical view, a book might act something like a switchboard, connecting readers who connect to it. Reader, I Googled It 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z The switchboard would ring back three minutes later and he would turn his back, pretending he was involved in a conversation. The murky life and death of Robert Maxwell – and how it shaped his daughter Ghislaine 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z They are working in directory assistance, not on a switchboard. How Phones Made the World Your Office, Like It or Not 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z It is not clear whether the switchboard was serving only Rockwealth or other churches too. The preachers getting rich from poor Americans 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z Heidi threw a block into professional football Sunday night that resulted in a deluge of telephone calls that reached such proportions the fuses in the NBC switchboard blew out. NFL At 100-AP Was There-The Heidi Game 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z “I even worked the switchboard when the switchboard operator was out.” Lou Weiss, pioneering TV agent and former William Morris executive, dies 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z Inside the door, stored beneath the counter at the switchboard, is a humidor with an excellent cigar collection known only to the members. What's It Like To Be A Member At Augusta National? - Golf Digest 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z He worked as a postmaster and a switchboard operator and would become the father to 8 children, prior to his death in 1962. Miracle penny that saved WWI soldier's life to go up for auction: 'Never seen anything like this before' 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z An electrical problem caused smoke and damage to a switchboard. After more than three months at sea, Polar Star icebreaker returns home to Seattle 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z When people couldn’t contact NBC because the lines were busy or because of the switchboard breakdown, they flooded New York newspapers with calls. NFL At 100-AP Was There-The Heidi Game 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z An electrical problem, before the Feb. 10 fire, caused smoke and damage to a switchboard. Crew of aging Seattle-based icebreaker struggled with fire on Antarctica Mission 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z Other lawmakers go through the White House switchboard. ‘He just picks up’: Trump and the lawmakers he loves to talk to on the phone 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Now calls to the company’s switchboard in Wausau, Wis., quickly get forwarded to automated operating machines in New York, some of its small-town charm lost in a list of corporate acquisitions and name changes. Eastbay catalog memories: It’s where a generation went to look at sneakers — and dream 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Patching — Audio patch bays are essentially switchboards for quickly and easily directing signal flow. Why the Grammys sound amazing and sometimes go wrong 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Inside the White House, callers to the main switchboard were greeted by a message asking them to “please call back” when the government reopened. A Week Into Government Shutdown, Ire Turns to Fear for Federal Workers 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z In the quiet old house, the president, with no advisers to turn to, calls the White House switchboard operator: Opinion | Thank you for calling the White House. We aren’t functioning at the moment. 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Give him the number of the Nationals switchboard and tell him to leave a message for general manager Mike Rizzo. Mark Lerner playing hardball on Bryce Harper offer teases future Scott Boras dealings 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z She started in the early 1990s on the switchboard of her father’s company, Huawei Technologies, the world’s largest maker of telecommunications network equipment. Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou seen as successor to father’s tech empire 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Trump is known to use several phones and has placed calls from cellphones that are not logged in the White House switchboard, current and former aides said. Trump’s night-owl calls to Roger Stone in 2016 draw scrutiny in Mueller probe 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z “Upside Down Flowers” has a wide switchboard of emotions and McMahon the skill to expedite the connections. Review: Andrew McMahon’s new album saturated with nostalgia 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Calls to the White House switchboard during this Christmas holiday are greeted by the following message: Opinion | Thank you for calling the White House. We aren’t functioning at the moment. 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z For privacy, the Cameroonian delegation installs its own internet connection and phone switchboard. Can’t Find Cameroon’s President? Try Geneva’s Intercontinental Hotel 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump typically relies on his cellphones when he does not want a call going through the White House switchboard and logged for senior aides to see, his aides said. When Trump Phones Friends, the Chinese and the Russians Listen and Learn 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z During the Second World War, she had worked as a switchboard operator for the military. The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Before any of the calls could be made, however, the president of Egypt called in to the switchboard at Trump Tower and somehow got the operator to put him straight through to Trump. ‘This guy doesn’t know anything’: the inside story of Trump’s shambolic transition team 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The number to the Capitol switchboard was written underneath. At this year’s Emmys, fashion trumped activism on the red carpet 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The region’s switchboard for gait and posture, the subthalamic nucleus, is part of the neural controls for motivation, decision-making and mood. Can brain-stimulating implants treat some severe cases of autism? 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z All questions should be directed to the Times opinion desk, she said, in a statement that included the phone number for the newspaper’s switchboard. Op-ed sparks high-stakes whodunit in Washington as Trump seethes 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z In one of those investigations, the government secretly seized records for telephone lines and switchboards that more than 100 reporters for The Associated Press used in their Washington bureau and elsewhere. On Trump and the hunt for leaks after book, unsigned essay 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said anyone who wanted to know the identity of “the anonymous coward” should call The Times and she posted on Twitter the newspaper’s main switchboard phone number. It Wasn’t Me: Pence, Pompeo and a Parade of Administration Officials Deny Writing Op-Ed 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeted out the phone number for the New York Times switchboard, urging followers to call and request the "identity of the gutless coward." Trump feels 'amazingly alone,' and increasingly the world sees it 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Last week we learned that British retail giant Marks & Spencer is moving 100 switchboard staff to other roles because chatbots are taking over their duties. How chatbots are coming for our call centre jobs 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Cyber criminals shut down parts of the Web in October 2016 by attacking the computers that serve as the internet’s switchboard. How Cryptojacking Can Corrupt the Internet of Things 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z Later in the podcast, the comedian received a call from the switchboard asking for confirmation of the senator’s phone number. Comedian claims he tricked Trump with prank call onboard Air Force One 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z In this corner of India’s far northeast, where electricity is sometimes available for just a few hours a day, engineers, supervisors and switchboard operators were “directed to remain vigilant in their respective duties.” In cricket-mad India, 1 distant corner is crazy for soccer 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Burned was a historical switchboard — the kind where the operator manually connected callers by plugging phone lines into the correct circuit. Thousands of artifacts from Aberdeen’s history gone in a fire, including a Kurt Cobain exhibit 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z At 9.15pm on 9 April 1956, the BBC's switchboard suddenly lit up with calls from hundreds of viewers convinced they had just witnessed a gruesome murder live on their television screens. The 'maharajah of magic' who terrified the UK 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z On June 19, his assistant placed a call to the White House, and the switchboard inadvertently put it through to Johnson while he was in a meeting. How the assassinations of 1968 led the NRA to become the lobbying force it is today 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Calls to their switchboard and an email were not answered on Thursday. Kenya moves to regulate fintech-fuelled lending craze 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z If someone is on Facebook, I have a direct line to them right away — as though a switchboard operator has already put them on Line 1 for me. I tried leaving Facebook. I couldn’t 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z Next to the switchboard was an old photo of a young woman working it. Thousands of artifacts from Aberdeen’s history gone in a fire, including a Kurt Cobain exhibit 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump appointed Mr. Kelly as his chief of staff in July, and afterwards the president placed many of his phone calls through the White House switchboard, CNN reported. Donald Trump increasingly using personal cellphone to contact outside advisers: Report 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z After having the switchboard call all tenants to the lobby for an emergency meeting, she oversaw the installation of blackout curtains, emergency rations in the quickly cleared basement, sandbags throughout. When Washington hated its cherry trees 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The manager there asked me if I would be interested in the switchboard operator position just 3 days a week. Many Americans Try Retirement, Then Change Their Minds 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z She catapulted in six years from being the magazine’s night switchboard operator to becoming second-in-command. Harriet Fier, ‘assertive and savvy’ editor with Rolling Stone, dies at 67 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z During that time, she also worked as a telephone operator, asking “Number please?” to every caller and then entering the cords into the switchboard. Family grows to 127 from Kansas matriarch’s 68-year marriage 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z While Mr. Kelly receives printed lists of the White House switchboard calls, he has less insight into contacts made using the Mr. Trump’s personal phone, the report said. Donald Trump increasingly using personal cellphone to contact outside advisers: Report 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z So she called the main switchboard and prepared to ask for O’Brien, but a familiar voice surprised her: “Hi, this is Betsy with the New England Patriots.” This coach convinced Bill Belichick to draft Tom Brady. Now his daughters keep his memory alive. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z From the 1980s, scientists realised they were more like switchboards. The search for the perfect painkiller 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z Army temporarily took over the hotel’s switchboard and kitchen. Allied Leaders at Casablanca: The Story Behind a Famous WWII Photo Shoot 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Since his nurse turned off her phone at 5, I called the hospice switchboard. Opinion | This Was Not the Good Death We Were Promised 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z Senior fellows sometimes took turns running the switchboard. Marcus Raskin, think tank founder who helped shape liberal ideas, dies at 83 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Murphy, a retired valet, switchboard operator and unrepentant hoarder, owns a small house in Dublin’s north inner city, but his eyesight is failing and he cannot afford to pay for home care. In Ireland, a same-sex marriage, a tax benefit and — wait — a twist 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z Then it was a collection of self-winding springs or an “enchanted loom,” then a clock, an electromagnet, a telephone switchboard, a hologram and, most recently, a biological supercomputer. To Unlock the Brain’s Mysteries, Purée It 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z He reserves the right to listen to calls coming to the president through the White House switchboard. Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z Let's 'light up' the Congressional switchboard just in time for the Holidays! Tax Bill Thrown Into Uncertainty as First G.O.P. Senator Comes Out Against It 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Capitol switchboard to ask their representative to preserve the credit. Adoption tax credit elimination plan pits Republicans against leaders 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Sometimes, when the switchboard operator was on her lunch hour, I was asked to fill in. Opinion | Being a woman means accumulating a lifetime of indignities 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z FRI-SAT Haunted fort and tour of the old switchboard for ages 10 and older, kids’ treats, games, bounce house, food vendors, 6:30-10 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Two switchboard operators at the Canadian company said his name was not in a global employee directory. BlackBerry patent licensing director says he has left company 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z OCT. 20-21 Haunted fort and tour of the old switchboard for ages 10 and older, kids’ activities including treats, games, stories, bounce house, food vendors, 6:30-10 p.m. Get ready for Halloween at Seattle-area pumpkin patches, corn mazes and haunted houses 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Here is our not-so-happy sports and politics recap, and all who complain about the mixture of the two are advised to register their complaints with the White House switchboard. As Trump Takes On Athletes, Watch Them Rise 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z But, the New York Times reported: “At the White House, switchboard operators said, ‘Angry calls, heavy and constant,’ began jamming their boards soon after Mr Ford’s announcement.” The five most controversial acts of clemency by US presidents 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z In two days, more than 400 people jammed the hospital switchboards, calling about Charles. Story of Nebraska school’s name still taught 89 years later 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z Two switchboard operators at the Canadian company said his name was not in a global employee directory. BlackBerry patent licensing director says he has left company 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z He explains that the switchboard manages power supply to the propeller and other machinery on board. How hackers are targeting the shipping industry - BBC News 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Despite Kelly’s switchboard requirement, the president has used his personal cellphone to reach people. Trump’s lack of discipline leaves new chief of staff frustrated and dismayed 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Another, on West 13th Street in the meatpacking district, dials the switchboard at the United States Capitol, in Washington. A Place for Inside-the-Box Thinking 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Senate has at times been getting 1.5 million phone calls per day, the busiest in the history of the Capitol switchboard. The Obamacare fight was ugly. It’s also what democracy looks like. 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z The call shattered the calm at the switchboard of the U.S. ‘We are shot! We are shot!’ An ICE agent’s final moments resound in U.S. court. 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z That will include the nucleus of the plant, a 4-foot-tall cabinet filled with wires and switchboards dubbed the “programmable logic controller.” Texas: Gulf Coast Water Authority to replace pump station 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z The hotels of the 1950s employed rooms full of switchboard operators just to enable guests to book rooms and make calls. Analysis | Tourism is booming in the nation’s capital. So why aren’t hotel jobs? 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z World War I brought with it 400,000 troops who passed through Fort Meade, as well as the “Hello Girls” — some of America’s first bilingual switchboard operators for the U.S. Fort Meade centennial looks through history 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z It was a world where switchboard operators such as Frances still physically connected telephone calls. Studs Terkel’s Working – new jobs, same need for meaning 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z When I did phone-in shows on US radio, conservatives would often jam the switchboard. A routine day's killing: investigating children's gun deaths in the US | Gary Younge 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z “First day, first show, we got 7,000 calls within one hour. Within two hours, our switchboard collapsed.” Indian soap tackles taboos to become one of world's most watched 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z On the day of the F.B.I.’s confirmation, a call from the White House switchboard came in to Mr. Coats’s office with a request to speak to the director, a former intelligence official said. Former C.I.A. Chief Reveals Mounting Concern Over Trump Campaign and Russia 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z One of the things that makes smell distinctive is that olfactory information is not rooted through this “switchboard” structure called the thalamus on the way to other “thinking” brain regions. Your nose knows more than scientists thought 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Later, she adds, “Some of the most important conversations of the twentieth century have come through the switchboard. And they’re all on tape.” Eavesdropping on Roy Cohn and Donald Trump 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z WWI was the first time in the nation’s history that women were officially attached to branches of the U.S. military, and more than 30,000 served in uniform, mostly as nurses or switchboard operators. Over There: WWI innovations still with us a century later 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Tweeps suggested bringing back elevator operators, telegraph messenger boys, milkmen and switchboard operators. Railroads a better bet than coal for restoring jobs 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Calls from the switchboard are usually from the highest officials at the White House — the president, the vice president or the national security adviser. Former C.I.A. Chief Reveals Mounting Concern Over Trump Campaign and Russia 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z "To arrange a call from a Russian diplomat to your political opponent, press 1," the fake switchboard message suggests. April Fools 2017: Some of the best jokes around the world - BBC News 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z And, in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, many of Trump’s private conversations with his late mentor, the lawyer Roy Cohn, were eavesdropped on by Cohn’s longtime switchboard operator and courier, whose activities were later exposed. Eavesdropping on Roy Cohn and Donald Trump 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z On Saturday, the ministry posted on its Facebook page an audio file of the purported new automated telephone switchboard message for Russian embassies. Russian Foreign Ministry takes poke fun at hacker scandal 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z The switchboard at Saint-Joseph school, in the Finistère department of western France, was saturated with calls from anguished parents on Wednesday. French schoolchildren badly injured in Westminster attack 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z The last time a British monarch died, 65 years ago, the demise of George VI was conveyed in a code word, “Hyde Park Corner”, to Buckingham Palace, to prevent switchboard operators from finding out. Operation London Bridge: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z In one of those investigations, the government secretly seized records for telephone lines and switchboards that more than 100 Associated Press reporters used in their Washington bureau and elsewhere. In this fact-challenged era, will public access to federal date be the next casualty? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Threatening calls are pouring in to switchboards of Jewish schools and community centers with alarming frequency. More bomb threats at Jewish schools and community centers, and another Jewish cemetery is vandalized 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Today, thanks to the Internet-as-all-purpose-phone-book, it is easier than ever to call your Congress members, by bypassing the switchboard and phoning their offices directly. What Calling Congress Achieves 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z Nearly 800 former EPA employees signed a letter imploring lawmakers to reject his nomination, and many current employees joined the ranks of activists demonstrating against him at rallies and deluging the switchboards of congressional offices. After bruising confirmation battle, Trump's EPA nominee Scott Pruitt expected to clear Senate vote 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Whatever voter’s motivations were, the Capitol switchboard was flooded with calls from around the country from concerned constituents. Betsy DeVos's confirmation is a blow. But there is an important silver-lining | Lucia Graves 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Teacher unions, which oppose her advocacy of giving tax money to families to pay for private schools, have rallied tens of thousands of people to flood Capitol Hill switchboards with calls. Waltzing Matilda and other themes of Trump Week 2 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z In the months that followed Breen’s exclusive, investigators logged her calls, those of her colleague Graeme Hetherington and even their small newspaper’s busy switchboard in an effort to unmask their sources. Reporters' spy saga gives glimpse of UK surveillance culture 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Three of those days—January 31st, February 1st, and February 2nd—were the busiest in the history of the Capitol switchboard. What Calling Congress Achieves 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z “My understanding is the main switchboard is overloaded. Calls on Cabinet and executive order,” emailed Matt House, a spokesman for Schumer, referring to Trump’s travel ban. ‘Please press 1′ to leave a message about Donald Trump, says House Oversight voice mail 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z He described himself as “a switchboard,” connecting different wings of an informal legal partnership that, only a day earlier, had not existed. In Boston, a Late-Night Victory Against Trump’s Immigration Ban 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Capitol switchboard on the back, urging citizens to deluge their members in Congress with phone calls on behalf of maintaining and extending health-care coverage, not terminating it. With outrage and resolve, Seattle rally backs saving, improving Obamacare 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z The next month, police seized three days’ worth of calls made to The Northern Echo’s switchboard. Reporters' spy saga gives glimpse of UK surveillance culture 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Will Americans swamp the switchboards again to demand better? Senate Republicans Gut the Confirmation Process 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z One of those numbers — the Capitol’s main switchboard — was plugged with hold music for hours Monday. ‘Please press 1′ to leave a message about Donald Trump, says House Oversight voice mail 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z That Saturday, a Yorkshire staff member left a message at the Copenhagen Zoo’s switchboard, offering to add Marius to its all-male herd of four. Killing Animals at the Zoo 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z A few days later, he called the main switchboard at the I.R.S. and told the operator that he wanted to pass on information about a crime. India’s Call-Center Talents Put to a Criminal Use: Swindling Americans 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z The family sold vegetables to supplement their income, and at one time ran the local telephone switchboard in their house, with a teenage Esther routing calls. Esther Wilkins, Who Set Standards for Dental Hygienists, Dies at 100 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z He was left to figure out, largely on his own, how to respond — and even whether the man who had called in to the DNC switchboard was really an FBI agent. How Russian cyberpower invaded U.S. and altered election 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z He was left to figure out, largely on his own, how to respond — and even whether the man who had called in to the D.N.C. switchboard was really an F.B.I. agent. The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S. 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z At his fingertips is a switchboard that allows him to instantly connect with the directors in on-site production trucks. Former NFL head of officiating Mike Pereira still gets to make the tough calls on games 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The Ops Center serves as a giant switchboard for the government, providing interpreters as needed to ensure that American officials are confident their words are being translated accurately. Donald Trump, After Fits and Starts, Focuses on Foreign Policy 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z But he revealed he rang the switchboard the day Cafferkey arrived, rather than the infectious disease consultant on call. Half of Ebola screening staff at Heathrow 'were not clinically qualified' 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z All were customers of Dyn, an infrastructure company in New Hampshire in the US that acts as a switchboard for internet traffic. Cyber attack: hackers 'weaponised' everyday devices with malware to mount assault 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z Dyn is one of a number of outfits that host the Domain Name System, or DNS, which functions as a switchboard for the internet. Internet Attack Disrupts Major Websites 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The insurance company president who takes his turn fielding calls on the company’s switchboard throughout the year: He’s one of us. The One Question You Should Ask About Every New Job 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Using government switchboards can also help prevent hoaxes. Donald Trump, After Fits and Starts, Focuses on Foreign Policy 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z By mistake, he phoned the switchboard and did not get a reply. Half of Ebola screening staff at Heathrow 'were not clinically qualified' 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z "We've gone from the Model T to the Tesla and from the switchboard to the smartphone. Yet high school has remained frozen in time." Virtual Reality in the Classroom 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z But Apple has a strong technological case for updating the headphone jack, which can trace its origins back to at least 1878 and was originally used in old-fashioned telephone switchboards. Apple unveils new iPhone without headphone jack 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z During some of that time, she operated the store’s old-fashioned telephone switchboard. Ex-Sears worker: ‘We were really a family’ 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z A dismantled telephone switchboard collects dust in a back room; the company retired it this year after one client, a holdout, finally agreed to upgrade an antiquated landline. Bells Are Still Ringing, if Less Often 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Along the way she worked in various jobs, including as a country schoolteacher and a switchboard operator. The Future of Aging 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z It’s not a pneumatic pump, a telephone switchboard, a tape recorder or any of the other objects people have compared it to over the years. The Brain That Couldn’t Remember 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z She worked as a construction laborer, washed and cut hair and operated a switchboard until “something in my head just snapped” and she was diagnosed with bi-polar depression. St. Paul mother speaks out against drinking during pregnancy 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Later, when the store closed, she kept one of the switchboard cables as a keepsake. Ex-Sears worker: ‘We were really a family’ 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z The switchboards confounded him, the girls had not been girls for a long while, and the office walls were stained brown from decades of cigarette smoke. Bells Are Still Ringing, if Less Often 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z She worked as a switchboard operator at Union Station and then at Group Hospitalization Inc., the former Blue Cross insurance plan for the Washington area, in the 1940s and ’50s. Washington-area obituaries of note 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z The email asked that switchboard operators not hang up on anyone "claiming to be Tom Wolf." Stop hanging up on governor, Pennsylvania employees are told 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z The bomb threat charges resulted from a December 2013 telephone call to a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, insurance company during which Alcala told a switchboard operator he was going to send her a bomb. Davenport tax preparer going to prison in false returns case 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z After Miami, Herrenknecht wrote several letters to Paulina in Caracas, where she was working as a switchboard operator, tour guide, and part-time nanny. The Long Dig 2008-09-15T04:00:00Z He pushed it into an imaginary switchboard with a grin on his face. Bells Are Still Ringing, if Less Often 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Turk was director of switchboard operations at the White House, supervising 15 people, from 2009 until she was fired in August 2013. Regional Digest: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z On Feb. 10, 2010, she dialed the White House from her home, but couldn’t get past the switchboard operator, who didn’t believe she was really Hillary Clinton. How Hillary Clinton Became a Hawk 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Long ago, a phone system created wire lines between callers, and operators moved plugs in their switchboards to connect people. Gearing Up for the Cloud, AT&T Tells Its Workers: Adapt, or Else 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z A former White House switchboard supervisor pleaded guilty Tuesday to one federal felony count of embezzling taxpayer funds by manipulating an employee’s time sheets. Ex-White House supervisor pleads guilty in overtime embezzlement scam 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z He recently stood in front of the dismantled switchboard in his office’s back room. Bells Are Still Ringing, if Less Often 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z A former White House switchboard supervisor was sentenced Tuesday to five years probation for stealing nearly $11,000 in taxpayer funds by manipulating an employee’s time sheets. Regional Digest: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z Turk, 46, was director of switchboard operations at the White House, supervising 15 operators, from 2009 until she was fired in August 2013. Former White House supervisor charged with embezzling 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Initially the quarter-inch jack was used by operators in old-fashioned telephone switchboards, plugging and unplugging connections. The 19th Century plug that's still being used - BBC News 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Turk, 46, was director of switchboard operations at the White House, supervising 15 people, from 2009 until she was fired in August 2013. Ex-White House supervisor pleads guilty in overtime embezzlement scam 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z She sought a job matching his nocturnal hours and before long found herself talking to strangers through a switchboard in a cramped room alongside other women wearing headsets. Bells Are Still Ringing, if Less Often 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z As a cadet, he worked the police switchboard. For Bratton and Kelly, Linked Legacies and Locked Horns 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z A former White House switchboard supervisor was charged Wednesday with embezzling thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds by manipulating an employee’s time sheets. Former White House supervisor charged with embezzling 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z In this 1949 National Geographic photo, a switchboard operator steps outside a telephone office in Andorra. Before Hotline Bling: 12 Photos of Phones Through the Years 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z The Canadian embassy switchboard in Washington was overwhelmed by Americans wishing to convey warm sentiments; “Brilliant move.” Why the World Remembered 'Instant Hero' Ken Taylor 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z He retired the switchboards: Three were thrown out, two were sold and the last was kept out of respect, he said. Bells Are Still Ringing, if Less Often 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z That is, the bus drivers sat more than the conductors, and the telephone switchboard operators and clerks sat more than the postmen. What Do Double-Decker Buses Tell Us About Our Health? 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Scotty Reston tried to lure her to the New York Times, as long as she would “handle the switchboard in the morning.” Mary McGrory, the revolutionary insider of Washington journalism 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z In this 1949 National Geographic photo, a switchboard operator steps outside a telephone office in Andorra. Before Hotline Bling: 12 Photos of Phones Through the Years 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z After their divorce, she joined Ferris & Co., working the switchboard, doing filing and sometimes helping on the order desk before earning her broker’s license. Gail Winslow, brokerage executive, dies at 85 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z Some bulbs on the switchboard, which once lit up when calls came in, were colored red. Bells Are Still Ringing, if Less Often 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Afterwards, distraught listeners flooded the BBC switchboard and vented their grief in newspaper letters pages. The Archers star reveals sacking secret after 60 years - BBC News 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z Nearly a century after Nutt first connected a call, switchboards remained almost entirely staffed by women. The Woman Who Made History by Answering the Phone 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z In this 1949 National Geographic photo, a switchboard operator steps outside a telephone office in Andorra. Before Hotline Bling: 12 Photos of Phones Through the Years 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z Here, in honor of Nutt and the women who followed her, are LIFE’s best photos of women working switchboards through the decades. See Photos of Telephone Operators Through the Decades 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z About 20 Belles receptionists were employed in its prime; only six work there now, four of them for long enough to remember the switchboard days. Bells Are Still Ringing, if Less Often 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z The targets included the switchboard for the Japanese Cabinet office, the official workplace of the prime minister, and the line of the executive secretary to Abe’s chief cabinet secretary. WikiLeaks says U.S. spied on another ally – this time, Japan 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z The first telephones were hard enough to use without the added harassment of the teenage boys who worked as the earliest switchboard operators — and who were, per PBS, notoriously rude. The Woman Who Made History by Answering the Phone 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z On the inside, there are electronics upgrades that include new breakers, substations, switchboards, lighting panels, fire alarm systems and water pumps. North Dakota’s Cold War-era radar station gets a facelift 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Dean had served as a kind of human switchboard in the cover-up, conferring with every central participant. The darkness that consumed Nixon: Why “Tricky Dick” could never do him justice 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z “We fell in love with the magic of the switchboards.” Bells Are Still Ringing, if Less Often 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z “She was very beautiful, pretty braids, sitting at the switchboard at State House,” said Ibbo Mandaza, who is now head of the Southern African Political and Economic Series Trust thinktank in Harare. Don’t mess with Grace Mugabe – she could be the next president of Zimbabwe | David Smith 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z As for Ms. Randolph, the switchboard operator, she is opting for the second choice, and will take some severance now and continue working until the hotel closes. Waldorf Astoria and Hotel Workers Union Reach Record Deal for Severance Payouts 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z The Power Plant Bar & Grill in the French Lick Springs Hotel features the gigantic switchboard which once served as the electrical nerve center of the building. Deal of the Week: Tee it up in Larry Bird's neck of the woods: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z From the outside, the Westin Building looks like a regular office building, but inside it's essentially a giant switchboard. Heating houses with 'nerd power' - BBC News 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z If clients call the firm’s main number, they are greeted by an automated switchboard. A Woman-Led Law Firm That Lets Partners Be Parents 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z This bundling acts as a switchboard for the gene's activity. Scientists discover an important new driver of aging 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Also, she took on jobs as a switchboard operator, a secretary and then a vault custodian, keeping track of hundreds of security boxes for First National Bank. Spoetzl brewmaster’s widow still at brewery 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z The Kings' version of events sparked a public outcry and staff members in Southampton said they received angry emails, letters and phone calls which, at one stage, forced the hospital to shut its switchboard. Ashya King: Southampton hospital staff criticise parents 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The next year, when Easter fell on April 1, it received only 209, barely enough to keep one switchboard operator busy. New York Today: Of Fraud and Footwear 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z A person who calls the switchboard from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Iowa lawmakers vary in how much contact info they post 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Then and now, the number reaches the White House switchboard. U.S. rift with Israel roils the 2016 presidential field 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Then the borough’s switchboard began to light up. Water fluoridation debate reignites in Western Pennsylvania 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Baker then read out the number of the White House switchboard. Iran: The high-stakes issue that divides Netanyahu and Obama 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z After about half an hour, one of them picked up a phone in the hangar, called the base switchboard, and wished the operator a “Happy Thanksgiving.” Nuns and Nuclear Security 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Rep. Mike Sexton, R-Rockwell City, who led the bill on the floor Wednesday, said he believes lawmakers should list a more direct telephone number on the official Legislature website than the switchboard number. Iowa lawmakers vary in how much contact info they post 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z He encouraged conservative activists to "light up" the Senate switchboard to pressure senators to vote. Boehner, GOP vow continued immigration fight over Homeland Security funds 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z In mid-October, the technology activist group Fight for the Future acquired the direct phone numbers of about 30 F.C.C. officials, circumventing the F.C.C.’s switchboard to send calls directly to policy makers at the agency. As Republicans Concede, F.C.C. Is Expected to Enforce Net Neutrality 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Tedder’s unit set up mobile switchboards, often in shell craters, which ensured direct communication between commanders on the front lines and their headquarters. 2 Gastonia men recall fighting to survive Iwo Jima 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z “There must have been three or four hundred phone lines” coming out of the switchboard, Porter said. In LBJ’s former home, current owners ‘feel the history’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Groups such as Fight for the Future, whose donors include technology companies, said they have helped initiate tens of thousands of calls from their members to regulators and lawmakers using technology that bypasses switchboards. GOP, tech industry mostly out of step over net neutrality issue 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z “Whenever we talk about Israel … we get phone calls,” Stewart said, producing a clunky switchboard with wires and red phone, ringing off the hook. Jon Stewart’s off-beat take on news gets global ‘like’ 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z "Whenever we talk about Israel ... we get phone calls," Stewart said, producing a clunky switchboard with wires and red phone, ringing off the hook. Jon Stewart's off-beat take on news gets global 'like' 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Football historians may remember Carroll as the Captain Edward J. Smith of this gridiron Titanic, but Bevell was the man operating the switchboard who missed the iceberg warnings. Super Bowl Wisdom: Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll at His Best After His Worst Moment The automated switchboard, that most satanic of corporate innovations, isn't going away even though the vast majority of consumers despise it. Can evil automated switchboards really be improved? 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Inquiries from women seeking abortions swamped the switchboard at Chicago’s sprawling Cook County Hospital. Four Decades Later, Roe v. Wade Is Still Monumental If your kid is still hawking Thin Mints door-to-door, she might as well pack up her sash and see if she can get a job as a telephone switchboard operator. Uber Is Going to Eat Your Children: The Top Tech Trends for 2015 The new switchboard is up, but most rooms are lit with plug-in lamps. Williston man continues to provide for homeless 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z The force operates a "triage" system where calls are answered quickly by a switchboard, but callers are kept waiting for a control room operator. More 101 calls to police abandoned 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The signal reaches the thalamus, a part of the brain that acts like a central switchboard for sensory information. Misophonia is a newly identified condition for people hypersensitive to sound Harris traces her mobile history to the age of five, when she helped operators connect calls on a mobile telephone switchboard for the family business. Wireless Veteran Pioneers a New Product Category Aimed at Women 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Before training as an artist, Tagliaferri worked on the switchboard of Bologna's municipal building, a job which he describes as irritable: "it paid the bills but little else". The blind sculptor who carves by touch 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z But she made her name first as a switchboard operator, and she told that Pearl Harbor story a lot over the years, including to The Dominion Post, in a profile eight years ago. Antique phones on display at Fairmont museum 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z Her father was a factory worker, her mother a switchboard operator. Carol J. Lancaster, dean of Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, dies at 72 “Switching them on and off like a switchboard,” Hendren says, “I think it would be very difficult, and very controversial.” Did a Son's Autism Drive a Woman to Murder? He serves as a one-man switchboard, counseling his countrymen enduring isolation and financial hardship — not just in Portland, but in cities like Phoenix and Buffalo and Syracuse, N.Y. Immigrant keeps suicide watch over fellow refugees from Bhutan 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z "A call came into the switchboard saying 'Angel is next,'" Bush said. Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer Tweets Gripping 9/11 Account 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Talese said that when Mr. Gelb was hired, The Times had uniformed elevator men with white gloves, editors in green eyeshades and switchboard operators who placed the reporters’ calls. A Former Editor Is Recalled as Kinetic and Filled With Wonder 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z “Scotland’s what?” said the Department of Defense switchboard operator in apparent confusion. 'Scotland's what?' Little buzz in US, but independence could cause headache 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z It is essentially a giant switchboard to connect disparate services, anything from Facebook to text messages to telephone calls. With $30 Million More in Hand, IFTTT Looks to the Internet of Things 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z As you might expect from a website focused on mature Americans, some of our first jobs scarcely exist anymore, like car hop, switchboard operator and pinsetter for a bowling alley. 8 Lessons We Learned From Our First Jobs 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z “The entire switchboard lit up at once,” he told The Times. Steve Post, Sardonic Wit on WNYC, Is Dead at 70 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z She called the office's number and discovered that she couldn't get past the automated switchboard. Trying to talk with IRS can be taxing Lamplighters, switchboard operators, typesetters, icemen, buggy builders, copy boys, telegraph operators … these are all jobs that became obsolete. Is What You (Think You) Know Holding You Back? Being Open To Unlearning 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Conservatives were waiting by their phones on Monday and Tuesday hoping to hear the Number 10 switchboard: "Just putting you through to the prime minister." Reading MP turns down minister's job 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Officials say the bomb threats came in around 10 a.m. directly to the switchboards at the Lexington Assessment and Reception Center and the Joseph Harp Correctional Center. Bomb threats called into 2 Oklahoma prisons 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z The regulations, for councils, the Welsh government and national parks, would also ensure that Welsh speakers are available on main switchboards. Welsh language flexibility call 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z A switchboard operator at Channel Seven said their offices were closed and no one was available to comment. Video footage shows Pistorius re-enacting killing 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z Aside from the operators who answer the switchboard, nobody at Conn’s will speak to the Haggler. How to Pierce a Deafening Silence? Maybe an Army Can Help 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z “I’d like to speak to a pilot, please,” I told the switchboard operator. 4 Powerful Things Con Men Can Teach You About Persuasion 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Throughout the house are vintage telephones, an old switchboard and other antiques, which, though they conjure up Mr. Ponzi’s era, were placed there by the current owners. Where the Father of the Ponzi Scheme Once Slept 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z But the switchboard will be on display Saturday in the Fraternal Temple building as part of a historical exhibit during the Locust Blossom Festival. Piece of Kendrick history returned to Idaho 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z He made it to Adelaide, where he shared a house with four former teammates, working in a switchboard factory by day and playing semipro soccer at night. Eritrea’s Soccer Team Flees Together, and Arrives in the Netherlands 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z "The switchboard at the Irish News was inundated with complaints for a week and people said they were outraged because it was a family newspaper and it betrayed all its principles," he says. Making cartoons from conflict 2014-04-17T11:44:17Z But few disagreed that Mr. Strauss operated as a sort of human political switchboard. Robert S. Strauss, Presidential Confidant and Deal Maker, Dies at 95 2014-03-20T01:57:12Z Eric Long dreaded answering his phone this week at Tabor Academy in Marion, Mass., while across the country at the Webb Schools in Claremont, Calif., Leo Marshall let the switchboard screen his calls. Wealth Matters: For Boarding Schools, an Evolving Financial Aid Philosophy 2014-03-14T17:52:17Z The telephone switchboard was recently returned to Kendrick after being housed at the Asotin County Museum for the past 16 years. Piece of Kendrick history returned to Idaho 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z A Facebook page called Snowed Out Atlanta was created as a kind of emergency switchboard for people trying to help friends and family members stuck on the road. Ice Storm Strands Thousands in Ill-Equipped South 2014-01-29T14:36:25Z His work revealed three classes of genes that oversee vesicle transport, acting as the molecular switchboard for these bubbles. The Nobel Prize Winners Explained 2013-10-07T23:05:21Z Caused by a central nuclear switchboard fault at the yard, it was the most potentially dangerous of 50 "events" recorded in 2012. 'Nuclear implications' of power loss 2013-10-06T17:04:04Z There was also some delay in calls to the switchboard being answered. Major IT problem at health board 2013-10-01T20:16:55Z “These didn’t usually operate at night,” McLaughlin said, adding the switchboards were typically operated from someone’s home. Piece of Kendrick history returned to Idaho 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z Mr Lagerling said he had made a "cold call" to the switchboard of Nestle's UK advertising agency at the end of November to propose the tie-up. Google in Android KitKat surprise 2013-09-03T16:52:31Z In March, a rat shorted a temporary switchboard and cut power for 29 hours that was used to cool spent uranium fuel rods in pools. Japan Utility, and the Public, in the Dark about Crippled Nuclear Power Plant 2013-07-31T15:45:09.047Z Switchboard operators: Dulcet tones soothing the masculine mind There was actually nothing soothing about working a switchboard. Do we still need the telephone? 2013-07-25T23:30:08Z The government switchboard directed calls for Nagyova to the press department, which refused to comment. Czech cabinet in crisis after police sweep government offices 2013-06-13T18:33:41Z Discussions of moving the switchboard back to its hometown began this spring when the Asotin County Historical Society approached the Juliaetta-Kendrick Heritage Foundation. Piece of Kendrick history returned to Idaho 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z When computerized dialing systems were introduced, they replaced the need for manual telephone switchboards and, consequently, the switchboard operators that ran them. What We Can Learn From A Dinner Controversy In The Desert 2013-05-16T14:44:53Z AP said the seizure of records for general switchboard numbers and a fax line at its offices in New York, Hartford, in Connecticut, Washington DC and the House of Representatives was unusual and largely unprecedented. AP condemns US phone records seizure 2013-05-14T01:29:01Z We are now witnessing the death of the office landline, and with it the main switchboard. Do we still need the telephone? 2013-07-25T23:30:08Z Last time around, in 2007, angry calls overwhelmed the Senate switchboard and lawmakers endured raging town hall meetings and threats from incensed constituents. Cartoons of the Week: April 28–May 3 2013-05-03T15:24:32Z Imagine companies trying to exist in today’s information age with 1940’s rotary phones, switchboard operators and typewriters. What Moneyball Can Teach You About Hiring The Right People 2013-05-06T13:00:19Z The utility later said the 29-hour power outage was caused by a rat that shorted a temporary switchboard. Leaks spur Japan's crippled nuclear plant to expand storage 2013-04-11T10:54:23Z That system functions like a telephone switchboard for the Internet. Online spat over spam jams whole Internet 2013-03-27T12:39:00Z The office switchboard was the hub of office, a sort of social glue connecting everyone to everyone else. Do we still need the telephone? 2013-07-25T23:30:08Z When was the last time anybody here stood in line for the bank teller instead of going to the ATM, or talked to a switchboard operator? State of the Union: A Return to First Principles for Obama 2013-02-12T10:50:21Z Like the Tony Blair hoax, the entertainment value is in trying to get through the switchboard. The end of prank calls? 2012-12-11T11:00:23Z They somehow got through the hospital switchboard and were connected to Ms. Saldanha, who unsuspectingly forwarded the call to the nurse caring for the Duchess of Cambridge. Humiliated to Death 2012-12-10T09:45:00Z Nor is it in, I think Swansea or possibly Neath, where I discover a new switchboard for grumpy customers. Sorry is no longer the hardest word 2012-11-16T08:29:01Z People were phoning in to the BBC switchboard on the day, writing in, emailing, getting messages to me afterwards about how much they'd been affected by the whole thing. Murdered goth's story on stage 2012-09-18T02:03:03Z At this point, the phone was busy with callers and Mr. McDonagh said, "If only the switchboard would light up like this when we're looking for funds." City Room: Taunting WBAI Callers Identify Themselves 2012-09-17T19:25:07Z To take a previous example, the Blair-Hague hoax, the Downing Street switchboard staff would clearly have been embarrassed. The end of prank calls? 2012-12-11T11:00:23Z The University of Colorado Hospital said that no one at its switchboard talked to the suspect in the Aurora movie theater shooting before the attack, but that a caller did hang... The Latest on the Colorado Dark Knight Rises Shooting Rampage 2012-07-30T06:55:00Z A hospital spokesman said the switchboard received a call at 12:31 a.m. on July 20 in which the caller said nothing and hung up after seven seconds. | Rockies: Colorado: Hospital Denies Talking to Shooting Suspect 2012-08-31T23:56:55Z What the British never, ever do is follow the American tradition and address those driving taxis as "driver", those serving at table as "waiter" or those working the hotel switchboard as "operator". 12 more British quirks in 212 words for 2012 visitors 2012-08-03T06:55:43Z Secretary of State James Baker once went on television, recited the switchboard number of the White House and told Shamir to call when he got serious about peace. Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir Dies at 96 2012-06-30T23:05:37Z Secretary of State James Baker once went on television, recited the switchboard number of the White House and told Mr. Shamir to call when he got serious about peace. Former Israeli Premier Shamir Dies at 96 2012-06-30T19:47:57Z Engine room, containing gasoline engine, water pump, electrical generator, switchboard, water tank for cooling gasoline engine, weight for gas pressure, gas mixer, batteries, pipes, wires, etc. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z There was also a separate telephone system for intercommunication between a number of the chief officials and service rooms, through a 50-line exchange switchboard. Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic' 2012-04-17T02:00:14.973Z There should be two electric mains entering all places of amusement, one from the front, with switchboard in box office, controlling entire auditorium and exits, and one on stage, to be used for theatrical purposes. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z Since then, hackers affiliated with Anonymous even threatened to “shut the Internet down on March 31” by attacking servers that perform switchboard functions for the Internet. Bits Blog: Interpol Site Knocked Offline Following Anonymous Arrests 2012-02-29T12:32:59Z He took the paper from the man, went over to the switchboard, fumbled at a local instrument, and, as Ralph discerned, went through the form of sending a message. Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car 2012-02-29T03:00:25.457Z Thus McComas, in testing telephone operators, constructed a miniature switchboard and put the operators through actual calls and responses, meanwhile measuring their speed and accuracy by means of chronometric attachments. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z Its chief ganglion is a far-reaching switchboard on which little lights twinkle on and off and at which at a single relay sit nine competent operators in addition to a corps of inspectors and supervisors. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z I was on the stage when the flames shot out from the switchboard on the left side. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z The Sun’s switchboard declined to release contact details. Murdoch Stands By Sun Tabloid as 5 More Journalists Arrested 2012-02-11T19:19:02Z Nuisance calls involving raccoons used to light up the park service's switchboard, researchers said. Study: Invasive pythons wiping out native Everglades animals 2012-01-31T02:08:23Z McComas has described a dot-striking test for measuring accuracy of aim or motor coördination, which forms an essential factor in manipulating a switchboard. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z You shut down the congressional switchboards, and you melted their servers. 8 Million People Look Up Reps In Congress After SOPA Blackout 2012-01-19T19:23:31Z The switchboard was there—but no one to work it. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z A small boy sat at a telephone switchboard. Dorothy Dale in the City 2012-01-13T03:00:12.213Z As she had told him, over against the wall stood the three tickers, side by side, and beyond them a desk and a telephone switchboard. The Money Gods 2012-01-04T03:00:39.617Z In a sobering counterpoint to the typical revelry of the night, fire trucks were stationed in neighborhoods, police patrolled the city, switchboards took hotline calls and thousands in rewards were offered. New year arrives with more car fires in Los Angeles area 2012-01-01T10:05:19Z The false messages sent off a flood of Twitter reactions and lit up the Times switchboard. Media Decoder Blog: Times Readers Inundated by False E-Mail on Subscriptions 2011-12-28T19:35:22Z The switchboard was of marble, with the connecting wires behind it in iron conduits. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z It is furnished with alternative compound winding, in which the series winding is provided with a switch, which196 may be fixed either upon the machine itself or upon the switchboard. Hawkins Electrical Guide, Number One Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A Progressive Course of Study for Engineers, Electricians, Students and Those Desiring to acquire a Working Knowledge of Electricity and its Applications 2011-12-24T03:07:54.823Z Meanwhile Little Willie himself was handing the attendant at the switchboard a punctured carriage check, with which to flash the number on the sign outside. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z While her two children grew up, she worked a variety of jobs, from switchboard operator to bookkeeper to butcher. Cruising past ?retirement age,? some enjoy their jobs enough to work into 70s, 80s, 90s 2011-12-06T16:33:47Z The simple principles of switchboard construction, the development of the switchboard, the connections of the various instruments, including the lightning arrester, are also plainly set forth. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z The wire leading from the switchboard could not be inclosed in an iron conduit. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z At least two of these—the Trenton taxicab tangle and the affair of the girl at the switchboard—are exploits worthy of separate mention. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z The switchboard at a generating station is always supplied with instruments called ammeters, an abbreviation of amperemeters, for the purpose of measuring the current passing out from the dynamos. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z Like connecting to a telephone switchboard, NAT acts as the operator, forwarding a call on to an internal telephone extension. Time To Embrace IPv6, Not To Run From It 2011-11-07T03:41:29Z It takes up all sorts and conditions of dynamos, connections and circuits, and shows by diagram and illustration just how the switchboard should be connected. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z The wires were led into the switchboard through iron tubes, and those tubes and wires are there yet. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z The first night that he came downstairs—after a good day's sleep—and spotted Virginia Lang on the switchboard, he could have been pardoned for wandering over and trying to engage her in a conversation. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z One of the gang must have tampered with the switchboard back of the proscenium arch just before the others swooped down on us and carried away the body.” The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z For she was dreadfully inefficient, and daily expected a reduction to the level of the girls who, with rigid "dolly-caps" clamped round their heads, manipulated the rubber worms of the big telephone switchboard. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z Molding and conduit work are given careful consideration; and switchboards are systematically treated, built up and illustrated, showing the purpose they serve, for connection with the circuits, and to shunt and compound wound machines. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z The lights went out in the theater with this destruction of the switchboard and all stage connections. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z No goddess at all, just a girl from the switchboard who was glad to have a chance at the brutes. On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents 2011-11-26T03:00:14.947Z A call to the switchboard was transferred to a woman who, declining to identify herself, said the two were not available to speak Wednesday and declined to comment further. DealBook: U.S. Tax Evasion Case Touches Julius Baer 2011-10-12T13:03:34Z After graduation, Coleman became a switchboard operator at the telephone company. Wisconsin family accused of letting protector die on floor of home, leaving remains in garage 2011-10-09T17:29:54Z The bookseller's shutters were down, and in the window of the electric-fittings shop could be dimly seen a ventilating fan, a desk-lamp, and a switchboard or two. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z Whether he threw the switch that lights the auditorium I do not know, but I do know that the fire from the draperies fell all around the switchboard and burned out the fuses. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z The switchboard called him imperatively as he spoke, and he reluctantly consented to ring up the superintendent. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z I have a telephone switchboard to half the rooms in the house, and the line to Pall Mall is doubled, the second wire not passing through the Company's Exchange. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Still, they've searched all of the rooms, they say, finding hundreds of thousands of document files, television control rooms, computer systems, switchboards, and what they allege was a makeshift prison in the parking garage. Crime and Punishment in Libya: Inside Gaddafi's Surveillance System 2011-09-03T05:20:00Z It designed at Bell Labs and manufactured at Western Electric the phones and switchboards everybody used. MCI's Bill McGowan Proved That Telephony Competition is Good for Consumers 2011-08-29T00:15:22Z I sent him downstairs and put him in a little alcove that is next to the switchboard, underneath where they claim the fire started, and where I saw the fire first. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z But I grabbed at the switchboard and called up Mr. Ingham. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z "I would advise you, however, to discharge the person who operates your switchboard." The Leak 2011-08-23T02:00:33.460Z The “switchboard” resets itself on every wrong note, but if the correct tune is played, the final puff of air travels through the board to unlock the secret drawer. Puzzle maker crafts one-of-a-kind musical desk that reveals its secret _ only with right tune 2011-08-05T09:40:32Z Sitting down at the switchboard, she slipped on the headpiece with a professional flourish. Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z I got him at the first entrance right in front of the switchboard, and looked up and saw a fireman there. Chicago's Awful Theater Horror 2012-03-28T02:00:25.877Z Nervous American hedge-fund investors jammed the switchboards of London lawyers, demanding to know the scale of the regulatory threat. BSkyB shares fall ?1.8bn on fears about 'fit and proper' Ofcom test 2011-07-08T19:21:17Z For 10 years he worked as a switchboard operator for the police department in Modesto, but he lost his job two years ago due to budget cuts. Blind runner Steve Gokey will run Rock 'N' Roll Seattle Half-Marathon on Saturday 2011-06-25T00:43:53Z The whole place with its come-and-go of clerks, messengers, telephone girls, civilians, typists, switchboard girls, and their khakied male superiors, was in a never-ending buzz. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z By good fortune, the haughty being who presided at the switchboard was hovering about waiting for a long distance call from a “certain party” in New York. Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z He walked to a switchboard on the wall and began to experiment. Dave Porter on Cave Island A Schoolboy's Mysterious Mission 2011-06-15T02:00:23.660Z I telephoned Mr al-Sanea's switchboard and someone put me through to him. Special Report: In $22 billion Saudi family feud, who knew what? 2011-06-10T12:38:31Z Schneider sells into the smart grid energy management market by providing distribution management, demand response and meter infrastructure, which includes switchboards and protections relays, as well as offering communication and IT solutions. FACTBOX-Europe's major smart grid suppliers 2011-06-01T11:27:30Z Will you please come to the switchboard, sir? The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z Still again we paused at the telephone switchboard—a switchboard large enough to take care of the entire business of a city of the size of Springfield, the capital of Illinois. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z After nine, the night clerk had to handle the switchboard at the Bolivar. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z They “lit up the switchboard for weeks,” said Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, explaining his decision to oppose the bill. The Anti-Immigration Crusader 2011-04-17T04:10:22Z In any household in the days before mobiles took over, the landline served as a switchboard for everyone's connections outside the home. Is this the death of the telephone? 2011-03-23T08:00:05Z And all three ran up to the gallery, where the huge switchboards were ranged around, and where the night operators, with the receivers attached to one ear, were still at work. The Invasion 2011-05-20T02:00:29.260Z As it turned out, a Queens bartender confessed to making the call that somehow got through the Coliseum switchboard to the visiting coach’s office. Sports of The Times: The Grime and the Emptiness of N.F.L. Labor Disputes 2011-03-19T17:20:32Z At the switchboard there's still ginger in me, but with the pen I'm one of the "also rans." Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z The anger that shook California was slow to make the Capitol switchboard buzz. The Anti-Immigration Crusader 2011-04-17T04:10:22Z It was eleven o'clock and I was sitting at the switchboard looking out at the streets, all puddles and ruts, when I got a call from the Dalzells'—a place near the Junction—for Mapleshade. The Girl at Central 2011-03-08T03:00:37.413Z "Hangs round my switchboard and hasn't the price of a dinner in his jeans." The Black Eagle Mystery 2011-03-07T03:00:12.497Z Moore was not in the house, and Bates, determined to learn something, went to Julie Baxter, who was at her switchboard. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z In districts where electric power is available the continuous current can be used by means of a switchboard. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z I called the Chicago Tribune's main switchboard to reach a friend whose number I hadn't written down. Unplugging in Chicago 2011-02-04T16:10:14Z And there wasn't any hanging round my switchboard and asking me to make dates for dinner in town. The Girl at Central 2011-03-08T03:00:37.413Z I was the telephone girl in Longwood, New Jersey, met Babbitts there when he was a reporter for the Dispatch—he is yet—and the switchboard lost one of its brightest ornaments. The Black Eagle Mystery 2011-03-07T03:00:12.497Z Nearby at the telephone switchboard was another girl, who looked up curiously as the Bun man came out of the elevator. In the Onyx Lobby 2011-02-14T03:00:31.897Z At the after end of the engine-room are the two main switchboards, of whose manner of working I am at present in some ignorance. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z A number of high-pressure feeders are carried from the main switchboard to various transformer sub-centres or else run throughout the district to which current is to be furnished. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z Only just keep in mind that I'm more at home in front of a switchboard than at a desk. The Girl at Central 2011-03-08T03:00:37.413Z CBS' switchboard was overwhelmed with hostile phone calls, so much that the network was initially slow to defend Rather, unsure how widespread the rage was. The roots of Fox News 2011-01-27T01:45:00Z The Football Association switchboard was inundated with calls yesterday. and may be interested to know that a high percentage of them were from women, asking how to qualify as a referee. Richard Keys and Andy Gray prompt surge in potential female referees 2011-01-25T08:01:15Z The switchboard attendants gripped the regulating rheostatts as if by their personal efforts they could urge the boat on faster. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z Rendell’s a human switchboard -- and he’s available starting next month, when his term as governor ends. Wussy White House Needs Good Snowball Fight: Margaret Carlson 2010-12-30T02:28:46Z |
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