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transistor radio
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  • One with a transistor radio on—except it was the stupid Mets and not the Yankees.†   (source)
  • Chinks of late afternoon light stole into the room through the curtains and fell on Ammu's tangerine-shaped transistor radio that she always took with her to the river.†   (source)
  • He listened to ball games on his transistor radio and read about them the next day in the Plain Dealer.†   (source)
  • Bob and I were listening to a transistor radio when he flipped the dial to another station.†   (source)
  • He could hear laughter all around him, tinny and echoing like the music out of the old transistor radio his father sometimes used.†   (source)
  • There, in the dark, sitting on a sack of bark chips for her orchids, Dede had slowly turned the dial on Jaimito Enrique's transistor radio.†   (source)
  • In one window was an old Grundig transistor radio.†   (source)
  • At noon on Christmas Day, a quartet of women lay under and around it, a transistor radio serenading them.†   (source)
  • Tad started round the house toward the swing-and-gym set Vic had built last summer, while lubricating himself wed with gin and tonics, working from a set of plans, doing it after supper on week nights and on weekends with the voices of the Boston Red Sox announcers blaring from the transistor radio beside him.†   (source)
  • They set up the dome tent and got into their mummy-shaped camp bags, nicely lined with flannel, and they realized the coyote was Wolfman Jack on the transistor radio, a howling disc jockey vectored into the desert from some bandit station below the border.†   (source)
  • Phillip Atkins marvels as he turns up the volume on a tiny (transistor radio.†   (source)
  • The young men walking by with transistor radios pressed to their ears seemed silly to her.†   (source)
  • W. W. Gonad was sitting in the breezeway outside the blood bank, a transistor radio in his lap, and nurses and probationers sitting close to him.†   (source)
  • They bought me a coat, a pair of shoes, a football, and a transistor radio.†   (source)
  • Someone in the group had a transistor radio.†   (source)
  • Rock music blared from the transistor radio with tin-like vibrations as the long-haired driver of the Yellow Cab slapped his hand against the rim of the steering wheel and jolted his jaw with the beat.†   (source)
  • Up and down the street transistor radios clicked on and hummed into the sour air.†   (source)
  • She was never allowed to see the rest of the great house or told where she was, though when she listened to al-Bayan on the ancient transistor radio they gave her, the signal was without interference.†   (source)
  • Transistor radio.†   (source)
  • Several of them carried military radios with spindly aluminum antennas that bobbed and sparkled as they marched; others carried transistor radios.†   (source)
  • CUSTOMER: I want a Philco transistor radio!†   (source)
  • At a few minutes before ten Randy clicked on his transistor radio, and they all listened.†   (source)
  • She looked down a slope, needing to squint for the sunlight, onto a vast sprawl of houses which had grown up all together, like a well-tended crop, from the dull brown earth: and she thought of the time she'd opened a transistor radio to replace a battery and seen her first printed circuit.†   (source)
  • Their laughter drowned out the loud groan from another table where Turtle sat alone, a transistor radio plugged in her ear.   (source)
  • The jacket they gave me was gray plaid wool, and the transistor radio already had batteries in it.†   (source)
  • Tomas had a small transistor radio on the table in front of him and was listening to it intently.†   (source)
  • Anyway, his second and last set of batteries for the transistor radio was losing strength.†   (source)
  • Rasheed's watch too was sold, his old transistor radio, his pair of neckties, his shoes, and his wedding ring.†   (source)
  • The pile was growing there: a Polaroid camera, a transistor radio, an elaborate electric train set—and several sealed envelopes containing cash.†   (source)
  • Through the window, Mariam saw neighbors milling about, chatting excitedly, transistor radios pressed to their ears.†   (source)
  • What I remember most about the general's hospital stay is how Khala Jamila would wait until he fell asleep, and then sing to him, songs I remembered from Kabul, playing on Baba's scratchy old transistor radio.†   (source)
  • From his transistor radio and the evening papers he could tell that the hunt for the killer Ronald Niedermann was winding down.†   (source)
  • When they come to take you down, When they bring that wagon 'round, When they come to call on you And drag your poor body down … Jerry Garcia's voice, easy but somehow weary, came floating down the hall, magnified and distorted by someone's transistor radio until it sounded as if the vocal were floating down a long steel tube.†   (source)
  • There was also an old transistor radio of the kind Deo remembered seeing Rwandan militiamen carrying next to their ears as they walked around refugee camps.†   (source)
  • The bells of the ice-cream truck jangled across the street, and a sudden roar burst from a dozen transistor radios.†   (source)
  • People walked along listening to transistor radios because there were stations with auxiliary power and there were men wrapped in headscarves who sold flashlights and candles and there were candles in thousands of apartment windows and people on line for candles outside the five-and-ten and long lines at phone booths on every second corner.†   (source)
  • At noon in our bungalow we gathered around the Grundig and Rosina's transistor radio, one tuned to the BBC and the second to Radio Addis Ababa.†   (source)
  • I thought the Americans were coming, and I jumped up and ran downstairs to find that the only thing that had dropped onto Haiti that night were transistor radios, which the U.S. government had parachuted down as instruments of propaganda.†   (source)
  • In the buses all night she listened to transistor radios playing songs in the lower stretches of the Top 200, that would never become popular, whose melodies and lyrics would perish as if they had never been sung.†   (source)
  • Randy thought, it must be the transistor radio, started up again, but at the same time he knew this was impossible because he long ago had thrown away the dead batteries.†   (source)
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