Word: telegraphe
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...house would only burn down, we would pack up the cubs and fly to the isles of the blest, and shut ourselves up in the healing solitudes of Haleakala and get a good rest; for the mails do not intrude there, nor yet the telephone and the telegraph. And after resting, we would come down the mountain a piece and board with a godly, breech-clouted native, and eat poi and dirt and give thanks to whom all thanks belong, for those privileges, and never housekeep any more." Yet, aside from a tantalizing shipboard glimpse of a Honolulu quarantined...
...involved. But at least the two nations, under terms of the Tashkent agreement, were talking together again-to the vast relief of both Washington and Moscow. Besides the troop pullback and civilian exchange, commercial flights between India and Pakistan have been resumed, diplomatic relations fully reestablished, some mail and telegraph services put back in operation. Last week India's turbaned Foreign Minister Sardar Swaran Singh flew into Rawalpindi at the head of a 23-man delegation to discuss further "normalization...
...train, the subway, the telephone, the telegraph, and eventually the automobile, foreshortened distances; the countryside beckoned, and people sick of inner-city congestion rushed in hordes to the cool green plots of suburbia...
...actions discrediting a citizen of the U.S.S.R.," leaving him permanently stranded in Britain. Tarsis had asked for it. He had roundly condemned "Soviet bandit fascism" at a London press conference, followed that blast with an article, obviously written before the edict but published after it, in the Sunday Telegraph reporting that despite savage persecution, "our people's immeasurable love of freedom is growing...
...target, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., is not merely the world's largest corporation but traditionally the bluest of blue-chip investments. The Bell System has the most stockholders (2.8 million), the most shares of stock outstanding (530 million), and the highest total stock value ($31 billion) of any firm listed on any exchange. So many of those shares are owned by widows and elderly couples that the FCC attack on "Ma Bell" has stirred up the same sort of popular resentment as an assault on motherhood itself. "I have stacks and stacks of letters from people asking...