Word: telegrammed
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WHEN THE PRESIDENT of Rutgers University was on the hospital after suffering a heart attack the National Academy of Science (NAS) reportedly sent him a telegram saying. "The executive committee wishes you a speedy and healthy recovery--by a vote of 10 to eight...
...recorded in my diary: "We sent all the Senators a telegram urging them not to speak out against the treaty until they know the details of the agreement. Apparently it worked with most of them except for a few nuts like Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms...
...show that runs without intermission, only once is he offstage. And even then his image is on: a giant screen descends, and in a skit written by Simone Signoret, Montand dictates to an unseen and unfeeling telephone operator a telegram of love to his mistress. The dialogue is hilarious, a reminder that Montand, the chanteur extraordinaire, is also a gifted actor and comedian, the star of such films as The Wages of Fear, Z and La Guerre Est Finie...
...Feeney ordered Turner to desist for the good of baseball. Turner watched the next game, a victory, from the stands, but a couple of days later he was in uniform again. He took batting practice, and was about to try his hand at strategy once more when a stern telegram arrived from Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. When Turner phoned Kuhn, the exasperated commissioner uttered the single memorable sentence of a career devoted to prudent locution...
...prospects for dissent, Smith knew as soon as he went public that his own political apostasy would probably lead to his removal from Stellenbosch. Pondering what to do, "I prayed to God to show me a way," he says. "The very next day I received the call in a telegram. As I read it, I burst into tears." A 1,000-member church in Mamelodi, a black township outside Pretoria, was inviting him to become a pastor. Smith immediately said...