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It became a standing joke that if someone telephoned Edgar and was told he was writing a novel, they would promptly reply, " I'll wait !".
When Edgar arrived, he thought du Maurier had telephoned about the letter he had sent regarding his play, The Gaunt Stranger ( which du Maurier interestingly never did receive ).

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" Wrong " was interpreted to mean legally wrong, rather than morally wrong, in the case of Windle 1952 2QB 826 ; 1952 2 All ER 1 246, where the defendant killed his wife with an overdose of aspirin ; he telephoned the police and said, " I suppose I'll hang for this.
In August 1963, President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D. C., telephoned Nigerian Prime Minister Abubakar Balewa aboard USNS Kingsport docked in Lagos Harbor ; the first live two-way call between heads of government by satellite.
Coldwell excitedly reported this to some of the CCF's Alberta leaders ; one of them telephoned Brownlee to question whether Coldwell's report was true.
When Calgary planners announced their intention to widen Memorial Drive, where the Brownlees lived, several residents expressed concern that the plan would destroy the street's trees ; they consulted Brownlee, who telephoned the mayor and saved the trees.
A farmer soon telephoned in ; the rear cargo hold hatch beneath the floor, portions of the interior floor, and six passenger seats, still holding dead passengers, had landed in a turnip field near the town of Saint-Pathus, approximately 15 kilometers south of the main crash site.
Later in the day he telephoned Field Marshal Günther von Kluge and convinced him that Hitler was alive ; this prompted von Kluge not to continue in the anti-Hitler coup.
According to a report in the The Sun, viewers telephoned a premium-rate number to vote for the People's Choice Award at the 2005 Awards during what was claimed to be a live broadcast ; yet, at 22: 30, the show went to a news broadcast, so that when the show returned, and viewers thought it was still live and thus still phoned the number, the last half-hour was in fact a recording as the vote had already finished, rendering the call-in votes given during the recording pointless and a misuse of the callers ' money.
He was later disqualified before his second round commenced, after a spectator telephoned in and pointed out an incident of his ball moving an exceptionally small distance closer to the hole on the green, while he was replacing his ball marker, during the first round ; it had been shown on television.
She telephoned his girlfriend, Maya, who told her Drochon, Duggan's roommate, had called to ask whether Maya had heard from him, because Duggan had left the apartment and had not returned ; this call was at 7: 40 am, according to the inquest.
The next morning, Wednesday, 14 November 2001, her parents telephoned her to see if she was feeling better ; but there was no reply.
According to Jones, Adams telephoned him when he was writing the pilot to ask whether he would essentially play himself ; Adams later stated that although Arthur Dent was not a portrayal of Simon Jones, he wrote the part to play to Jones's strengths as an actor.
* telephoned meetings, which allow for long distance speech ;
It is exceedingly rare for a concession, once issued, to be retracted ; such an event occurred in the United States 2000 presidential election, when Democratic candidate Al Gore, Jr. telephoned Republican George W. Bush to concede the contest.

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He telephoned L. M. Birkhead and asked him and his wife to come to Europe as his guests, but Birkhead declined on the grounds that one of them must be in the United States when Elmer Gantry was published.
' I remember my news syndicate was so worried about what his reaction might be, and we were all surprised when he telephoned and told me how thrilled he was with it.
Theremin recalled that on an evening when his hopes of overcoming these obstructing experts reached a low ebb, Abram Fedorovich Ioffe telephoned him.
Former president of the BVI's Financial Services Commission, Michael Riegels, recites the anecdote that the industry commenced on an unknown date in the 1970s when a lawyer from a firm in New York telephoned him with a proposal to incorporate a company in the British Virgin Islands to take advantage of a double taxation relief treaty with the United States.
Margaret Thatcher thought that although some of Powell's speech was " strong meat " she sympathised with his overall message and said to Heath when he telephoned her to inform her Powell was to be sacked: " I really thought that it was better to let things cool down for the present rather than heighten the crisis.
Although she knew that he telephoned the German most Fridays when the code room doors were locked so that he could report to Berlin, she knew him only as ' Cicero ' and that he had a British connection.
On D-Day, when the Allies invaded Normandy, France, Warlimont telephoned General Jodl to request that the German tanks in Normandy should be released to attack the Allied invaders.
The show took an unexpected turn when a woman in labour telephoned the show to share her experience with the band and they played " Push It " by Salt-n-Pepa for her.
However, when Nutting telephoned Prime Minister Anthony Eden to press the case, Eden angrily told Nutting that " I will not allow you to plunge this country into war merely to satisfy the anti-Jewish spleen of you people in the Foreign Office ".
Denning was already retired and living on the island of Maui with his wife, when producer Leonard Freeman telephoned him with an offer to appear as the Governor in the new series Hawaii Five-O.
He goes on to say that he was so upset when he saw Beyoncé claim credit for the song in an interview with Barbara Walters that he telephoned Mathew Knowles.
In October 1960, when Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested at a peaceful sit-in in Atlanta, Robert Kennedy telephoned the judge and helped secure King's release.
He and his wife Barbadee, could laugh about the affair, which she condoned – when the tabloid press telephoned, Meyer would call out " Darling, it's someone from the Daily Sleaze asking about Simone ".
Famously, when a penalty was applied to Hannah Craig during the 2012 Summer Olympics, Carl Dunne, head of the Irish canoeing team, telephoned RTÉ's analyst to discuss the possibility of appealing the decision.
The airline was informed of the location of Flight 2511 at around 7: 00 AM, when Richard Randolph telephoned its dispatch office in Wilmington to advise that there was airplane wreckage in the field near his house.
Police suspicions were reinforced when Martin telephoned Stephens several times, and they met to go to the cinema, and later for a meal, in the following weeks.
" Similarly, when Israel's Davis Cup team beat the powerhouse Russian Davis Cup team in a shocking victory in the 2009 Davis Cup tennis quarter-finals, Prime Minister Netanyahu telephoned the Israel Tennis Association Director General and echoed Brody's statement of over three decades earlier, saying: " We're back on the map ".

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When Yallop telephoned Haler the day after the initial interview, he reportedly confirmed his estimate of the bullet size.

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Having learnt of the arrest of the five men in the Watergate complex, Jeb Stuart Magruder testified that at John N. Mitchell's suggestion Mardian telephoned G. Gordon Liddy and told Liddy to contact Attorney General Kleindienst, with an order that James W. McCord, Jr. should be released before his identity was discovered.
After the explosive had been placed during Hamshari's absence, an agent telephoned him and asked enough questions to confirm his identity.

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Before he made that retreat, he telephoned Earl Blackman in Kansas City and asked him to come to Europe with him.
She telephoned the junior partner of her law firm, Martin Stacy, and asked him to call at her hotel that evening.
Upon learning of his mistress ' arrest, Pasternak telephoned Liuisa Popova and asked her to come at once to Gogol Boulevard.
Downey had previously telephoned the show's production staff and asked if he could produce or assist in an episode creation, as his son is a fan of the show.
His father-in-law Ernest Moore immediately telephoned the steward at the Glamorganshire and asked to him lay on as many drinks as he could find and the whole family went down to celebrate in style at the clubhouse.
In 1980, after establishing a daily world-exclusive radio interview with Iranian students holding 52 hostages in the American Embassy in Iran, Flora MacDonald, Canadian foreign affairs minister, telephoned and asked him not to air the following day's scheduled broadcast -- and, later, the world found out why: in what became known as " the Canadian Caper ," six American diplomats were smuggled out of the Canadian embassy with government-endorsed phony Canadian passports and whisked by air to Zurich.
Knowing he could attain the location for very little, and being a savvy producer, Bender telephoned all the screenwriters he knew and asked if they had any screenplays that took place in a bank.
He said he had spent time looking up the number, and even though his father had asked him to come quickly, he had first telephoned his girlfriend, Julie Mugford, in London, then had driven slowly to the farmhouse.
Foxx telephoned Page in St. Louis and asked her to read for the role of Aunt Esther.
While there, Dodgers president Branch Rickey telephoned and asked Bavasi to become business manager of a new minor-league baseball team in the New England League, and to find a suitable city in which to place the club.
When Jones telephoned the number and asked for Cynthia, she was told that no one of that name worked at the reservations desk.
Peter Snow was then telephoned and asked if he wanted to do a history series with his son.

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