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transistor radio
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  • Tried to listen to the Qawali music playing on the transistor radio at the next table.†  (source)
  • She wasn't taking any chances on being the first caller; she went down with her cash and sat in the dealership office while we kids waited on a park bench across the street, listening to the broadcast on a transistor radio.†  (source)
  • Rosaleen was making banana cream pie in honor of May, and I was sitting at the table working on my cereal and trying to find something decent on the transistor radio when August burst into the kitchen holding the note with two hands, like the words might fall off if she wasn't real careful.†  (source)
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  • A transistor radio blew up in the bazaar.†  (source)
    transistor radio = a type of small portable radio
  • He bought himself two nice transistor radios, died gently in the bathtub at age eighty-two, and left her plenty of money.†  (source)
    transistor radios = small portable radios made with transistors rather than vacuum tubes
  • And then one evening, after I had begged her to buy me a transistor radio, after she refused and I had sulked in silence for an hour, she said, "Why do you think you are missing something you never had?"†  (source)
    transistor radio = a type of small portable radio
  • Was it always so, or did they multiply vastly, along with telephones and new shoes and transistor radios and cellophane-wrapped tomatoes, in our absence?†  (source)
    transistor radios = small portable radios made with transistors rather than vacuum tubes
  • He stupidly told them that he and Dad had used a transistor radio, which they had buried in Zhu's courtyard.†  (source)
    transistor radio = a type of small portable radio
  • Several of them carried military radios with spindly aluminum antennas that bobbed and sparkled as they marched; others carried transistor radios.†  (source)
    transistor radios = small portable radios made with transistors rather than vacuum tubes
  • 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)
    transistor radio = a type of small portable radio
  • Up and down the street transistor radios clicked on and hummed into the sour air.†  (source)
    transistor radios = small portable radios made with transistors rather than vacuum tubes
  • 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)
    transistor radio = a type of small portable radio
  • 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)
    transistor radios = small portable radios made with transistors rather than vacuum tubes
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