21. Chief among the precautionary steps : covering tempting chewing material such as telephone cords and electrical wires. 22. After restraining DeMent with the telephone cord , the intruder forced the women to lead him to the valuables. 23. The keyboard pinouts are " crossed " so it isn't possible to use a standard telephone cord as replacement. 24. A year ago, it looked as if the cable television industry was about to be strangled by telephone cords . 25. He was also carrying a flashlight, four feet of telephone cord , a four-inch lock-blade knife and white surgical gloves. 26. It used a telephone cord -style connector to the case ( also used with the Amstrad PCW series of computers ). 27. Soaud also recalls her sister being choked with a telephone cord at a time when Palestinian villages did not have telephones. 28. She rings up Deva but before she utters the truth, Inder arrives with Jindaal, and Khan and detaches the telephone cord . 29. Barnett said in court records that Nivette cut the couple's telephone cord so she couldn't call for help after the beating. 30. The 27-year-old assailant also had a knife, but only used it to cut the telephone cord , the CTK news agency said.