Word: telegramed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Party Asunder. At that, another Conservative newspaper turned against Diefenbaker. Snapped the Toronto Telegram: "This man cannot expect again to lead his country." At a stormy party caucus, Trade Minister Hees once more urged Diefenbaker to resign, demanded at the very least a promise that Diefenbaker would not campaign on a platform of destructive anti-Americanism. Diefenbaker seemed to agree, but then in his first TV speech, he angered the Cabinet rebels all over again with statements about "loss of sovereignty" and "domination...
Next night he was back at his telescope, scanning the same area. The misty object was still there. In the morning, he sent an urgent telegram to Tokyo Astronomical Observatory, reporting his find. Next day, the observatory spotted the object, declared it a new comet, named it after its discoverer and informed European astronomical authorities. Word went out to the Harvard College Observatory, Western Hemisphere clearinghouse for astronomical information, which also found the new comet and published its position. Soon telescopes in both hemispheres were combing Hydra for Comet Ikeya...
...Russell sent a telegram...
...tiger of the title (Alvin Ailey) is an inarticulate rebel, snarling and moping about the house. Mama pins her faith to a framed telegram, a next-of-kin death notice for another son killed in World War II, that hangs on the bleak wall of her shanty on the outskirts of New Orleans. It is proof that the boy, who she feared would end in jail, died a hero's death instead...
...guise of promotion benefits from his job with the telegraph company are revealed to be thefts from the homes of whites. Moreover, he is a male prostitute catering to the jaded tastes of some of the richer white women in town. He hasn't delivered a telegram for years; the last one is on the wall, a fake he made up as a teenager to give his mother the comforting lie that she craved...