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Decor was kept to a minimum to allow room for visitors: a floral-print sofa with lace doilies, an end table holding a turquoise lamp and black rotary-dial telephone and ashtray, a small chair flanked by a rack of vintage magazines, a 1951 television, family photos and an 8-by-10 of Cline in one of her cowgirl outfits on the fireplace mantel.
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This is the third generation Blaser, and it is as unlike conventional turnbolt rifles as a Blackberry is unlike a landline rotary-dial phone.
Petzal's Picks: The New Best Rifles, Scopes, and Binoculars of 2010 2010
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Tamara was dumbfounded—it sounded exactly like the ring of an old-fashioned, rotary-dial phone.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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Decor was kept to a minimum to allow room for visitors: a floral-print sofa with lace doilies, an end table holding a turquoise lamp and black rotary-dial telephone and ashtray, a small chair flanked by a rack of vintage magazines, a 1951 television, family photos and an 8-by-10 of Cline in one of her cowgirl outfits on the fireplace mantel.
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Tamara was dumbfounded—it sounded exactly like the ring of an old-fashioned, rotary-dial phone.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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Decor was kept to a minimum to allow room for visitors: a floral-print sofa with lace doilies, an end table holding a turquoise lamp and black rotary-dial telephone and ashtray, a small chair flanked by a rack of vintage magazines, a 1951 television, family photos and an 8-by-10 of Cline in one of her cowgirl outfits on the fireplace mantel.
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In a place where " walking " means heading to your car across a Trader Joe ' s parking lot, the prospect of promenading seems as quaint as a rotary-dial telephone.
Scaling the Stairways of Historic Los Angeles Arnie Cooper 2010
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In the original show, Smart had a built in rotary-dial telephone in his shoe that he would use to contact CONTROL.
Get Smart's Shoe Phone Video Contest « FirstShowing.net 2008
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If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past.
Printing: White House Transitions; Missing Keyboard Letters vs. Missing Century 2009
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He will be the latest in a long line of Directors who began their careers as lawyers without scientific or technological training: Like Allen Dulles, who could barely master the buttons on his secure line rotary-dial desk phone; and William Colby, who thought of the array of costly CIA reconnaissance aircraft as “big planes” and “little planes”.
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