Word: telegrapher
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...dense and dark decided that new buildings should reach up high in search of light. They rose, in fact, to the 52-story, 600-ft. level of the NatWest Tower, dwarfing the 365-ft.-high St. Paul's dome. According to Gavin Stamp, architecture critic of the London Daily Telegraph, "Wren's skyline was lost, not owing to any conscious decision, but to a sort of collective fit of absence of mind...
...soldiers? Keegan's answers: Alexander always, Wellington often, Grant no more % than necessary, Hitler never. Keegan attributes this chronological evolution to the continuing development of longer-range weapons, which made a general's presence on or near the battlefield increasingly perilous. At the same time, technology also provided the telegraph, telephone and radio, making possible the commander's separation from his troops. This trend reached its culmination in World War I, when the "chateau generals" on both sides lived in comfortable villas far from the trenches and ordered futile new offensives until the troops were near mutiny. In World...
...small item appeared in the London Daily Telegraph on June 1: "The family and friends of Mr. Terry Waite, the Archbishop of Canterbury's envoy, missing in Lebanon, said special prayers to mark his 48th birthday yesterday." Prayers were among the few words being spoken about the fate of Waite and the 22 other foreign hostages in Beirut. In Western capitals, officials were closemouthed. British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe did say, however, that there is no reason to believe Waite is "not still alive...
During his yellow-journalism heyday in the 1930s, Hearst dictated rat-a-tat headlines and punished political enemies in 18 big-city papers, including the New York Journal-American, the Chicago Herald-American and the Pittsburgh Sun- Telegraph. Today the company publishes 15 dailies, most of them in smaller cities such as Midland, Texas, and Bad Axe, Mich. After years of mounting losses, the firm sold the Boston Herald American to Rupert Murdoch in 1982 and shut down the Baltimore News-American four years later. As if to prove that it was not deserting big cities entirely, Hearst bought...
DENNIS CROWLEY and Pauly O'Brien grew up together on Telegraph Hill in South Boston. At 64, they're still the greatest of friends, spending all their time together...