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  • If it wasn't for her diesel-truck build, Cloud thought-and for the long black Venerian cigar she was smoking with such evident relish - she'd be a knockout on anybody's tri-di screen!

    Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972

  • I'd like to write it up, or make a tri-di of it ... or something ... but of course we can't.

    Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972

  • 'Since the days of my teen-age crushes on tri-di idols I simply haven't been able to develop any interest in a man who didn't have as much of a brain as I have, and the only such I met were either already married or didn't have anything except a brain-which wouldn't do, either, of course.'

    Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972

  • How come the tri-di outfits didn't all collapse, Joan, when those two spectaculars took up cybernetics? '

    Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972

  • I'll buy time on every radio and tri-di station in town-have the juiciest bits of these tapes broadcast, every hour on the hour.

    Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972

  • With Doreen gone and the blare of the tri-di absent there was a chance that a resemblance of peace and quiet might return to his room, amidst which the bothersome ticking of the clock could easily fade to an inaudible background munner.

    Pressure Harding, Lee 1962

  • More men, police and maintenance people, gathered around a big solidigraph model of the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth levels, projected in a tri-di screen.

    The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962

  • The audio, video and tri-di signals had all been piped into the station via coaxial cable from some unspecified place.

    A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

  • State age, school, marital status, and enclose recent tri-di with application.

    The Lani People 1951

  • Since I was only chasing my tail with this line of thought, I put it out of my mind and worked on some tri-di chess problems.

    The Misplaced Battleship Harry Harrison

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