Word: telegrammed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Nixon sends a telegram to Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan in New Dehli: WHILE YOU ARE THERE COULD YOU HANDLE THE BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS STOP HOW IS THE WHETHER STOP IT IS FINE HERE STOP THE PRESIDENT. Testifying before a crowded Congressional committee, Synthetics specialist and rat expert Dr. Robert P. Geyer reminds the representatives, "Rats might be under control but Derek Bok is still at large!" In his long overdue report on cohabitation, Lowell Housemaster Zeph Stewart finds that "only about one out of every 3.5 students sleeps in a room not her own." "The statistics belie...
Rafelson's hero is David Staebler (Jack Nicholson), a late night radio monologuist who broadcasts private traumas packaged for cultural consumption. He leaves the sordid bachelor digs he shares with his grandfather in Philadelphia when summoned to Atlantic City by his brother Jason's telegram, "Get your ass down here. The Kingdom is come." The "Kingdom" turns out to be but a revived version of a boyhood fantasy: to take over Tiki island, one of the Hawaiian archipelago, build a casino and amass a fast fortune. The Staebler brothers spend the rest of the film trying to subsidize the dream...
Some of the girls were worried about receiving their absentee ballots in time to vote, and Jane went so far as to send a telegram to her town's county clerk's office to make sure they hadn't forgotten her as a new voter. One evening we were going to visit one of France's landmarks, but Karen did not accompany us because she was busy reading so she could be an "informed" voter. If anyone purchased magazines, there was a standing rule that voters had first priority in reading them in the hope that...
There was a crowd of people at his headquarters, too. They gave him a standing ovation as he came to the podium. I could not imagine that McGovern would concede and make up with Nixon. I was wondering if he would even send him the traditional telegram. Such a thing seemed so "old style," a vestige of a time when the issues were not so urgent, when the country did not seem so divided. But there it was in the second line of his speech: "And I have just sent the following telegram to President Nixon: Congratulations on your victory...
...seemed less impressed. The students remembered the charges which had been leveled at the New Crusader during the 1960's--murder, bribery, extortion, embezzlement. They knew that the Teamsters Union is the only major union in the country which actively supports President Nixon--the man who sent a congratulatory telegram to Governor Rockefeller after the Attica rebellion one year ago. And so, when the question period began, these students took every opportunity available to crack holes in the New Crusader...