Word: telegram
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...sent me a telegram wishing us good luck Saturday," team captain Steve Potysman said last night...
...have enough credits to graduate. The unsuspecting undergraduate, or graduate, or whatever, was in Big Lake, Alaska at the time. He immediately wrote back, as did his mother, explaining that in fact, he was eligible for the great sheepskin. Of course, another look at his files prompted a return telegram, letter of explanation and profuse apology...
...impatient had I been to get the story out from the famine area that I had filed it raw from Honan, from the first telegraph station en route home-Loyang. By regulation, it should have been sent back via Chungking to be censored and almost certainly stopped. This telegram, however, was flashed from Loyang to New York via the commercial radio system in Chengtu, direct and uncensored. Thus, when the story broke, it broke in TIME magazine-the magazine most committed to the Chinese cause in all America. Madame Chiang K'ai-shek was then...
Coming as it did just two weeks after voters in St. Paul had overturned a similar law there, the Wichita vote seemed further evidence of a backlash against the gay rights laws passed by approximately three dozen U.S. communities-including Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Tucson, Ariz. In a victory telegram sent to Wichita's Concerned Citizens, Gospel Singer Anita Bryant, who led a similar repeal campaign last year in Dade County, Fla., said: "It is now obvious that the will of the American people is to return this country to profamily, Bible morality...
Several State Department spokesmen yesterday declined to confirm the authenticity of the telegram--which "Southern Africa" received from an undisclosed source--and denied that there is widespread support for corporate withdrawal...