Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opponents of the bill, including such organizations as the Americans for Democratic Action and the American Civil liberties Union, are urging Massachusetts residents to telephone and telegraph their representatives in a last ditch effort to block the bill's enactment...
...official said wryly: "We've sent six Viscounts to Communist China-seven if you count Lord Montgomery.''* But to the U.S. it was no joke. "We are not very happy about that sale." said Secretary of State Dean Rusk. The Treasury Department told the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. that it would withhold a U.S. license permitting its British subsidiary to supply British-made navigational gear for the Viscounts...
...question that once titillated San Francisco gossipists-which twin would get the toniest bachelor on Telegraph Hill?-came the answer last week, when Land Developer John Fell Stevenson, 25, youngest son of the U.S.'s U.N. ambassador, reached the moment of troth with Occasional Interior Decorator Natalie Owings, 22, the less bohemian of the sloe-eyed twin daughters of Architect...
...total 8,000, plus endowment funds for such schools as Princeton, Amherst, Middlebury, Williams, and New York University-all told amounting to more than $6 billion in assets. The portfolios of its customers put U.S. trust among the top half-dozen stockholders of such corporate giants as American Telephone & Telegraph, International Business Machines, Standard Oil of California, and Standard Oil of New Jersey...
...sell because editors are accustomed to swiping them." Vaughan is proudest of one of his paragraphs that was widely plagiarized and wound up as a footnote to history: "One day I wrote that President Millard Fillmore had lent encouragement to Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, and that out of gratitude Morse had named the characters of the Morse code, dot and dash, after Fillmore's children, Dorothy and Dashiell. That turned up in a national magazine [Coronet] as a perfectly straight bit of historical fact. It isn't given to many men to louse...