Word: telegraphic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could be put to better use than analyzing UPN's Monday-night schedule." Still, in an attempt to defuse the flap, the network yanked the pilot and substituted an episode titled "Abe Online," which depicts the Great Emancipator (played by Dann Florek) carrying on an illicit romance via the telegraph...
Andrew Lloyd Webber was chatting over lunch a couple of weeks ago in an Italian restaurant near his home on London's tony Eaton Square. The place "used to be hot in the '60s," noted Lloyd Webber (who writes a food column for the Daily Telegraph); "the food isn't very good." He picked the restaurant, though, because it's just a block away from the first of two theater openings he had to attend that day: a school production of Oliver!, featuring his two young sons, Alistair and Billy, in the chorus...
Decherd's great-grandfather, George B. Dealey, began his journalism career toiling away in the mailroom of the Galveston Daily News in 1885. His hard work won him steady promotions and the attention of the paper's owner, Alfred H. Belo. When Belo wanted to start a telegraph edition in North Texas, he sent his trusted lieutenant G.B. Dealey to scout the area...
Historian John Keegan is the defense and military specialist for London's Daily Telegraph...
...Mowlam's 90-minute visit with convicts like Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair, who once said that the only Catholic he'd ever had in a car was a dead one, angered many in the British press who saw the visit as a legitimizing of the terrorists. The Belfast Telegraph harrumphed that "Dr. Mowlam may secure a short-term gain today, but the worry must be that she has demoted the cause of democracy in Northern Ireland." Meanwhile, the Independent praised the decision as a courageous gambit to keep the imperiled talks moving. At least...