Word: telegrapher
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What gives him an advantage is his ability to spot "tells," minute tics or mannerisms that telegraph an opponent's hand. "Sometimes," he says, "Ah watch the vein in their neck or wrist. Some players, when they get a big hand, get those veins just a-pumpin'." With more accomplished players, tells are harder to detect...
...charges with the 21st against the dervishes at Khartoum, makes his way alone through the to the Nile, escapes from a Boer camp into an eight-day chase. Apart from money and fame, his principal aim in these dispatches is to win each breakfast reader of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post to his own vision of colonial expansion. This is the age of Cecil Rhodes and Joseph Chamberlain. The exuberant correspondent foresees a "brave system of state-aided - almost state-compelled - emigration" to "regions of possibil ity" where "the great-grandchildren of the crossing-sweeper and the sandwichman sport...
...corporation grow so huge and powerful that it becomes immune to the effects of even the most sensational scandal? If ever a company presented a test case of the answer, it is International Telephone & Telegraph Co. ITT is the biggest of all multinational conglomerates (annual revenues: $8.6 billion), and for slightly more than a year now it has been accused of making political payoffs in the U.S. and conspiring to overthrow the government of Chile. This week ITT executives will face stockholders at the annual meeting with a mixed report: profits are up, but the company's stock...
There were other signs that Whitlam's six-day visit was more amicable than might have been expected. The British press gave the Whitlams a markedly friendly reception: MR. DOWN-UNDER COULD BE TOPS, said a Sunday Telegraph headline. The Dally Mail delved into Aussie slang to describe Mrs. Whitlam as "a 'beaut sheila' indeed,"-meaning, roughly, a swell dame. On the government's part, Prime Minister Edward Heath thoughtfully invited the four Whitlam children, aged 19 to 29, who had gathered in London for a family reunion, to join their parents at a state dinner...
Smithsonian Curator Peter Marzio has arrayed a compact but thorough review of 284 years of American journalism. The growth of newspapers, from gossipy 17th century village broadsides written by hand to today's metropolitan dailies is reflected by changing technology: the telegraph, steam engine (which transformed hand-operated printing presses), wireless, camera, typewriter...