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For weeks Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman, national economics chief Robert Rubin and Magaziner had been telephoning corporate CEOs, urging them to stay on the fence and "keep your powder dry."

From Time Magazine Archive

Katharine had been telephoning to Ralph Denham; she looked queer, too; she must be, or about to become, engaged to him.

From Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia

The dear fussy little woman said that John had been telephoning inquiries.

From The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day by Stark, Harriet

He had been telephoning and besieging men in their offices and talking business; he felt his age.

From Rose MacLeod by Brown, Alice

They had been telephoning about you to the village.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham