Word: telegramed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trumpeted to dinner by the horn blast from Aida, 232 guests marched into the dining room at the Birnam Wood Country Club in Santa Barbara, Calif., to raise hosannas to Soprano Lotte Lehmann on her 80th birthday. It was the sort of occasion that called forth a telegram of congratulations from West German Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and commanded the presence of such votaries as Tenor Lauritz Melchior, Actress Judith Anderson and Conductor Zubin Mehta. "I am excited and overwhelmed," said Lehmann, who retired 17 years ago but still teaches master classes in voice at the University of California...
Repeatedly urged to withdraw their names by letter, telegram, and personal envoy from Rockefeller, the delegates decided to stand fast and ignore their candidate's wishes...
...Purple Code. The World War I episode concerns the notorious telegram sent by the German Foreign Minister, Arthur Zimmermann, to his envoy in Mexico; in code it stated Germany's intention of opening unlimited submarine warfare against the U.S. and offered various bribes to get Mexico's support. Decoded by British cryptanalysts, the telegram provided President Wilson with telling evidence to support the U.S. declaration of war on Germany...
Martin Peretz, instructor in Social Studies, read an open telegram from Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) during the second half of the teach-in held in Lowell...
...telegram read in part: "The American people have been asked to support the tragic escalation of the war in Vietnam and are being asked to support it definitively by their vote in 1968. But at no time, I believe, has the administration come forth with a clear and rational justification of why the Vietnam war should be supported...