Word: telegraphed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...impatient had I been to get the story out from the famine area that I had filed it raw from Honan, from the first telegraph station en route home-Loyang. By regulation, it should have been sent back via Chungking to be censored and almost certainly stopped. This telegram, however, was flashed from Loyang to New York via the commercial radio system in Chengtu, direct and uncensored. Thus, when the story broke, it broke in TIME magazine-the magazine most committed to the Chinese cause in all America. Madame Chiang K'ai-shek was then...
...that there was something fishy about their offspring, they still had to discover the hard way just how large was the conspiracy of devil's disciples assigned to protect the secret of his origins and mission. In the new movie most of Damien's protectors telegraph their satanic allegiance the minute they appear, and William Holden as his decent uncle-guardian is constantly kept at a distance from the lad's evil doings...
After graduating from Marymount, Patrice moved back with her parents, wrote a few articles for the Morning Telegraph, painted a little and tried to help run the growing Jacobs-Bieber empire. Horses became her life. Every year her father let her pick a couple of home-breds from his stable as her own. Hail to Reason, which was one of them, be came the nation's top two-year-old in 1960. When the horse became permanently disabled the following year, Pa trice cried for two days. Says she: "My dreams were shattered...
John D. DeButts, LL.D., chairman, American Telephone & Telegraph...
While critics insist that Margaret should either shape up or retire completely to private life (meaning off the public dole), the princess also has some sympathetic defenders. Columnist Peregrine Worsthorne of the Daily Telegraph, a staunch monarchist, insists that "royal black sheep there are bound to be" and argues that it is no crime for a Windsor woman to admire younger men, particularly in England's second Elizabethan age. "Admittedly," adds Worsthorne in afterthought, "Roddy Llewellyn is no Essex or Walter Raleigh, but then she herself is no virgin queen." The princess's defenders also recall Margaret...