Word: telegraphe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Revolvers banged noisily, men scuffled in the streets, gay young Negroes beat out tropical rhythms on car fenders. Someone cut the telegraph wire to the interior. It was Sunday and Voting Day; in the first of six major elections in Latin America this year, Panama was choosing a President and a congress. Some 300,000 Spanish-descended hotbloods, dusty-footed Indian women and black West Indians lined up to deposit ballots marked (to aid the illiterate) with party symbols: a bell, a horseman, an ear of corn. Then, as a double precaution against double voting, each digged his fingers...
Blunden, a TIME foreign-news writer who spent 14 months in Russia for the London Evening Standard and the Sydney Daily Telegraph, and entered Kharkov immediately after it was liberated by the Red Army, knows his facts and his scene. Five years ago he published A Room on the Route (TIME, March 3, 1947), one of the best fictional portraits of Stalinist terror ever written. By comparison, The Time of the Assassins is diffuse, but it is still a gripping novel in its own right...
...Observatory will continue to be America's nerve center for sorting international astronomy developments and passing on recent events to the world at large. Harvard Announcement Cards give detailed facts concerning news developments to subscribing obsevatories and individuals. Telegraph and cable relay to both North and South America with the most significant immediate results. Copenhagen, Denmark, is the clearing house of the Eastern Hemisphere...
Cambridge and the Boston area will only slightly feel the effects of the nationwide telephone strike crippling 43 states and the District of Columbia, a spokesman for the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company stated yesterday...
Meanwhile, a four-day-old nationwide strike against Western Union continued to cripple telegraph service. Union officials discounted Company reports of a "mushrooming back to work movement," but Western Union said 15 more cities would have service reestablished this morning...