Word: telegramed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blowzy landlady while making a 4 a.m. getaway without paying for their pad. But Williams was a fastidious hobohemian who sent his laundry home to mother and was regularly bailed out of total penury by $10 bills in letters from his grandmother. While in California, Tennessee got a telegram announcing that he had won the New York contest and a prize of $100. "I remember," says Parrott, "that he had a handful of letters from agents asking to handle his writing and he took them and went 'eeny, meeny, miney, mo.' " Mo turned out to be Audrey Wood...
Despite Lopsided Majorities. In the flush of their victory, Republicans were quick to counterattack. Representative Bob Wilson, chairman of the House Republican Campaign Committee, fired off a telegram to the White House, suggesting that Robert Weaver be named to succeed Abraham Ribicoff, who plans to resign as Health, Education and Welfare Secretary to run for the Senate. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen gleefully assured a press conference that if Weaver were named to the HEW post, "not a single Republican vote" would be cast against...
Last night the Brown Daily Herald, the Columbia Spectator, and the CRIMSON sent a telegram to Gaylord P. Harnwell, President of the University of Pennsylvania, saying, "We respectfully protest the suspension of the Daily Pennsylvanian, and urge you to reverse this action...
...official of the International Amateur Athletic Federation darkly hinted that world records set with fiber-glass poles might be disallowed. Sportswriters compared vaulting's "lively pole" to baseball's "lively ball." Asked Columnist Arthur Daley of the New York' Times: "Is it cricket?" The World-Telegram and Sun's Joe Williams had an ambiguous answer: "The fiber-glass pole is as legitimate as a zip gun in a rumble...
...before had so many nations so thoroughly plotted the destruction of their enemies. When the fighting finally began, in the long, hot summer of 1914, the great armies moved eagerly onstage to take up their long-assigned positions. In The Guns of August, Historian Barbara W. Tuchman (The Zimmermann Telegram) tells how, in the very first month of World War I, all the dramatic plans disintegrated into four years of wasting disaster...