Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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London Daily Telegraph Correspondent Nigel Wade asked another crowd, "Do you want free newspapers?" and the Chinese shouted, "Yes!" He asked, "Do you believe your own newspapers?" and they answered, "No." Wade found the Chinese especially curious about Western clothes and books, and familiar with a newly released report by Amnesty International that takes have to task on human rights. He also found that "they seem to have a pretty good fix on Jimmy Carter. The overwhelming impression they have is that he is a kind...
...known on Fleet Street, are Publisher Rupert Murdoch's Sun (circ. 4 million) and the Daily Mirror (circ. 3.9 million). Each is fondled by twice as many customers a day as all four of Britain's major quality dailies combined. Total circulation for the Times, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times and Guardian is 2.1 million...
...hidden barrier, Weil agrees, is "the gigantic Japanese bureaucracy, with its bias against foreign manufactured goods." This shows itself in many ways. Government agencies like the railways and telegraph and telegram systems, which spend roughly $52 billion a year, have been under orders to "buy national," and although this restriction has been eased in recent months, old habits die hard and few foreign orders have been placed. And when the government does not want to buy foreign, wholesalers and industrial buyers steer clear of imports as well. At the same time, customs officers have been known to effectively shut...
...Masterson became deputy sheriff of notorious Dodge City, followed the gold rush prospectors to Deadwood, S.D., and then went to enforce the law at aptly named Tombstone, Ariz. at the behest of Marshall Wyatt Earp. Masterson closed out his career as a sportswriter for the New York Telegraph...
Romero, a telegraph operator's son who entered seminary at 13, was known as a conservative but also as a man of the people. He started speaking out as soon as he became archbishop-and had reason to. Within weeks a priest and two companions were machine-gunned, their bodies riddled with the type of bullets used by the police. The right-wing "White Warriors' Union," a pro-government vigilante group with ties to business, killed another priest to avenge an assassination by left-wing terrorists. Next, the White Warriors vowed to execute the 47 Jesuits...