One of the company's board members received a hurried call warning him to leave Tripoli before Mutassim's men could find him.
A hurried call to Daniel Schorr, senior analyst for National Public Radio and my consultant on pronunciation shift, confirmed my suspicion: "Yeah, when I was a kid in the Bronx, we used to say boogieman, but now, generations later, I'd say bogeyman.
Our pretty straightforward question, "is there someone we can talk to about the allegations", was met with a mixture of "ums," "urrs," and eventually a pretty hurried "call back later".
Cameron made a series of hurried phone calls to the home secretary, Theresa May, and officials back in London before releasing a statement responding to Stephenson's resignation.
On Monday night, the DfE held hurried conference calls to determine the extent of the breach, and whether to go ahead with the test as planned.
The next day, a glorious Bank Holiday Monday, was spent at the hospital in Exeter, where local doctors fingered his head and made hurried phone calls.
That, apparently, was a reference to the prisoner deal, negotiated in a series of hurried telephone calls with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Friday evening as Mr. Kerry was eager to get home but determined not to leave empty-handed after six visits in four months.
Gary says that rather than language barriers which could be "easily overcome with gestures, dictionaries and hurried phone calls to friends", he and Masha found out more about each other and their backgrounds, by often embarrassing and always revealing cultural differences.
The meeting seemed to be falling apart, but after some hurried phone calls we were lucky enough to convince three new speakers to fill in.
So on Friday, after the data came out, they organized a hurried conference call.
