listening-in

ENSOR: Well, the issue really is between, do you have your assets, your listening-in satellites, your signals intelligence, do you put those assets more into helping the war fighter or into national security issues like making sure al Qaeda is not going to bomb somewhere in the United States?

CNN Transcript Feb 17, 2005 2005

He was a network of nerves, anden he was not braced up to work, and so full of energy: or when he was not listening-in, and so utterly neuter: then he was haunted by anxiety and a sense of dangerous impending void.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

He would rather have been with his technical books, or his pit-manager, or listening-in to the radio.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

You will search it in vain for aspidistra and appendicitis, boche and bolshevist, cinema and camouflage, decontrol and Dora, broadcasting and listening-in, bootlegging and dope-fiend, for a dictionary published to-day is almost out-of-date to-morrow.

On Dictionaries 1969

Cable dispatches from Brest-Litovsk were regarded as safe from listening-in or tapping.

My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

Not a Scotch Presbyterian Minister possesses a "listening-in" set.

Confessions of a New Canadian 1924

You will search it in vain for aspidistra and appendicitis, boche and bolshevist, cinema and camouflage, decontrol and Dora, broadcasting and listening-in, bootlegging and dope-fiend, for a dictionary published to-day is almost out-of-date to-morrow.

On Dictionaries 1924

(Laughter) Well, as I say, I have got a "listening-in" set, and the other night I happened to hear a gentleman in the United States, somewhere near New York, addressing postal employees.

Confessions of a New Canadian 1924

So Curlie sat there surrounded by wire-wrapped frames, coils, keys, buttons, switches, motors, dry-cells, storage batteries and all the odds and ends which made up the equipment of the most perfect listening-in station in the world.

Curlie Carson Listens In 1918

Several scenes seem to anticipate the News of the World phone hacking scandal, like when Freddie bribes a policeman to let him examine a body at the morgue, and the phones of reporters are tapped by government agents even though it was journalists doing the listening-in at News of the World.

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