Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shift generated more dismay than enthusiasm. Labor jeered; even the sturdiest Tory supporters could manage only faint praise, and more often blurted doubts. The Conservative Daily Telegraph could see no evidence of "either wisdom or necessity." Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express deplored the removal of Butler from the Treasury at a critical time and his replacement by Macmillan-"an untried quantity as economic arbiter." Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail concluded gloomily: "We can only hope that the new team imparts to the government a drive and decision now lacking...
...more. Fully one-third of Algeria north of the Sahara was in a state of siege. Stations, tent camps, truck parks and supply dumps were corseted in barbed wire and surmounted by steel watchtowers. The road to Batna, metropolis of the Aures Mountains, was strewn with sabotaged telegraph poles and bloated dead cattle...
...fellagha's armed strength is less than 10,000 men, possibly less than 5,000. They have no mortars, no artillery, no radios, no armored vehicles. Some fellagha are armed with rifles and Tommy guns, but most have only knives. Lacking explosives, they use axes to chop down telegraph posts; lacking ammunition, some have been known to attack French strongpoints with spears and clubs...
Randolph shone most brightly in a recklessly courageous military career: he jumped into Yugoslavia as a parachutist with a Commando unit, also served in North Africa and Italy, reached the rank of major. He covered the Korean war for the Daily Telegraph, managed to rub most of his fellow correspondents the wrong way until the day he returned from a patrol action with a half-dollar-sized shrapnel hole in his shin and coolly dictated a dispatch...
Wind-chilled East Coast horseplayers hardly needed the Morning Telegraph's solicitous ad to remind them it was time to head south. But what good was the knowledge that the horseplayers' paper would be available at Jake's News Stand, 116 Julia Street, Jacksonville, if all a man had was a pocketful of losing tickets? Raising a stake was getting to be a tough proposition. Too many short-priced horses were galloping home; too many potential long shots were going to the post at low odds just because a jockey named Willie Hartack was perched...