Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trades Union Congress (see below) last week condemned any proposal to raise bars against Commonwealth non-whites and the Labor Party planned to insert an antidiscrimination plank in its next election program. Yet three of London's twelve leading newspapers-the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Daily Telegraph-supported restrictions as did a growing number of Tory M.P.s and a few Laborites. And at week's end the Daily Express announced that it had surveyed Britons on the desirability of restriction. The results: 79.1% in favor of restrictions, only 14.2% opposed...
...full medical treatment if sterility developed. How to find such remarkable people? Wright saw the way after newspaper stories drew 80 Birmingham couples for a similar test financed by one Captain Oliver Bird, 78, of Bird's Custard. Wright sent a carefully worded ad to the London Daily Telegraph, which rejected it with a pun: "The conception is distasteful to us." With little hope, he tried the Times, which unexpectedly accepted the ad and netted 20 replies. Tabloids quickly spotted it, published stories that netted 100 more volunteer couples...
...stood by in silence, their weathered faces turned to the driving rain, as the black-and-red-hulled French trawler, Jules Verne, steamed slowly into harbor, its flag at half-mast. Only the tolling of bells, the slopping sound of water against pilings, the bitter wind singing in the telegraph wires broke the silence as the first bodies were brought ashore. They were wrapped, not in half a red sail, but in blue blankets and blue plastic shrouds, and Monsignor George Quinn whispered the prayers for the dead over each of them. Mourned a woman in the crowd: "Three...
They moved into the valley of the Ruzizi River, boundary between the U.N. trusteeship of Ruanda and the Congo proper. Working both sides of the stream, they got native chieftains to pass the word by jungle telegraph. At their chieftains' bidding, 215,504 men, women and children trooped down to rally points where the doctors were waiting with jugs of ice-cold Chat. In some cases, team members squirted the virus-containing liquid into the tribesmen's mouths; usually, they let them take it from a tablespoon. There were no ill effects, and team members have high hopes...
After all the waiting, the names proved somewhat anticlimactic. "Respectable," said the London Times, rather unchivalrously, "but hardly exciting." Added the Daily Telegraph: "The list makes history -without unduly disturbing it." Absent were the expected names of sharp-tongued, Virginia-born Lady Astor, the first lady to sit in Britain's Parliament, and Lady Violet Bonham Carter, busy daughter of the late Prime Minister Sir Herbert Henry Asquith. Also missing: the Viscountess Rhondda, who died last week...