31. They can survive for a long time on environmental surfaces such as countertops, bed rails, telephone receivers and privacy curtains. 32. There were days when Ronnie Suba actually welcomed that dead nothingness you hear after a telephone receiver is slammed down. 33. Lobster and champagne were on the table beside her, and above hung an enormous telephone receiver covered with liqueur glasses. 34. "Like a Salvador Dali painting, it's all real, but the telephone receiver is melting over a chair, " he said. 35. The giggle, a familiar staccato, sounded joyously in the telephone receiver Wednesday, and Monica is saying, " This is exciting. 36. Dennis told The Associated Press, holding a satellite telephone receiver in one hand, and waving an imported beer in the other. 37. As he spoke into a telephone receiver , his words echoed faintly from behind the bulletproof glass in the prison's visiting room. 38. It can also be acquired from contact with telephone receivers and seat backs that have been contaminated by a previous user. 39. In 1878, David E . Hughes noticed that sparks could be heard in a telephone receiver when experimenting with his carbon microphone. 40. Another function is to short-circuit the telephone receiver during dialing, to prevent audible clicking noise from being heard by the telephone user.
