Word: telegrammed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moravia's stories are, finally, calls to accounting of the lives of people who have wept only in their dreams. "Somebody knocked at the door and a terrible voice cried 'Telegram!' " Thus ends a story ironically titled Paradise. Dante could draw another circle of hell from the slump of the Moravian woman - stifling her yawn, stifling her scream -as she shuffles to answer...
...sent a telegram to Means to let him know of our actions and one to King because we feel he represents the interest and welfare of third world communities in Massachusetts and should be informed of conditions," said Cheng...
...began as a reporter of hard news. An A.P. stringer while at Princeton, he scooped the country by revealing the death of Grover Cleveland in 1908. (A telegram from Mrs. Cleveland, whom he had befriended during an earlier news assignment, alerted him.) Assigned to the White House of Woodrow Wilson, who had taught him at Princeton, Lawrence broke the story of Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan's resignation from Wilson's Cabinet. In 1915 he became Washington correspondent for the old New York Evening Post, which soon began sending his daily column to subscribers by telegraph; Lawrence...
...brilliant historian once described the American participation in a controversial war: "In the lives of the American people," she wrote, "it was the end of innocence." The writer is Barbara Tuchman, the book The Zimmermann Telegram, and the event described, the American entry into World War I. The U.S., it would appear, is capable of losing and recovering its innocence not once, but over and over again...
...Cheap. Their crusades can pay off. When Sports Huddle lambasted Richard Nixon for not congratulating the Bruins for winning the 1970 Stanley Cup, 30,000 listeners sent protest letters to the White House. The President responded with a congratulatory telegram and later, while driving in a convertible in Dublin, held up a sign saying BOSTON BRUINS ARE NO. 1. Claiming that the Patriots were "too cheap" to find a decent field-goal kicker, Sports Huddle launched a "Search for Superfoot" among 1,600 English soccer players; the winner, Mike Walker, a Lancashire bricklayer, was not only signed by the Patriots...