Word: telegram
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Elliot, immediately phoned Marsden, who then calculated that a one kilometer gap separated each ring. He also made preliminery findings on the content of the rings. From there it was just a matter of hours before researchers all over the world received news of the discovery through Marsden's telegram network...
...winter of 1976, a telegram arrived for Graham Greene in Antibes. Would he come to Panama as the guest of its leader, Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera? "I thought of it as only a rather comic adventure," recalls Greene, "inspired by an invitation from a complete stranger." But the comedy was to pass through surrealism to tragedy, and the stranger was to become an intimate...
...writer with his story about Bogart, Naipaul went to Venezuela to look up his first character. He leaves his Caracas hotel one morning to visit the old man in his village in the Orinoco delta. They have a pleasant lunch, but when Naipaul returns to Caracas he finds a telegram from Bogart, a note he had missed that morning, which asks him to cancel his visit. Maybe it should have been a signal to Naipaul that the thousands of air-miles and the hundreds of pages which have come between him and the room at the BBC form an unbridgeable...
...clear in Dallas as it had been in San Francisco-each convention raising partisan adrenaline to fever levels-that the fall campaign will be hard-fought. As the Republicans headed home, Walter Mondale returned to the campaign stump after a four-day hiatus. He sent Reagan a telegram repeating his challenge to at least six debates...
...company had to prove there would be an audience for a paper that deliberately lacked a regional or ideological focus and that reported widely but without much depth. When the first issue of USA Today appeared, journalists likened the rainbow-bright, telegram-terse new entry to fast food and nicknamed it "McPaper." USA Today editors steadfastly retorted that they were trying to please readers, not their peers...