Word: telexed
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...Africa hands are painfully familiar with the phenomenon known as "Wawa." It stands for West Africa Wins Again, and summarizes the frustrating inability to mesh modern methods and ancient habits. Wawa crops up at cable offices, where either the Telex or the telegrapher are inevitably out. It turns up at the airport, where engines, customs officials or both are missing just when someone is desperately in need of a flight. Wawa hovers miasmatically in hotel rooms, turning a once placid shower into a veritable Victoria Falls, or switches telephone calls from one trunk line to another. Africa is progressing...
...newsroom of West Deutsche Rundfunk, a radio station in Cologne. This meant fresh copy from the telegraph office, and the late-shift operator dutifully bestirred himself to see what was coming in. The message he read jolted him down to his half soles. TODAY, LATE IN AFTERNOON, announced Telex No. 2, FIRST MINISTER OF U.S.S.R. KHRUSHCHEV DIED SURPRISINGLY AT 20:19 CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME OF HEPHOCAPALYTIROSISES. The message was signed TASS/ASAHI BONN-an unusual signature apparently signifying that the information had come from Tass, the Russian news agency, and had been picked up by a Bonn correspondent for Tokyo...
...halting English, a Moslem telegraph operator in the Middle East tapped out on the telex: "Is it correct Kennedy killed pis?" When New York replied, "Yes, an hour ago," the Moslem signed off, "How sorrowful...
Within minutes after President Kennedy announced the U.S. wheat sale to Russia and its satellites, telex machines started clattering in a 63-room French provincial mansion in the woodland outside Minneapolis. From this unlikely headquarters, messages went out to the far-flung arms of the biggest U.S. grain dealer: Cargill, Inc. Though it is a secretive, inbred and inconspicuous company, Cargill (pronounced with a hard g, as in fish-gill) is a $1.5 billion-a-year giant with more than enough wheat capacity to handle the entire sale of 150 million bushels to Russia. Despite its size and predominance...
Unusual Customs. It was already too late. As the Six discussed the agenda, runners began trotting into the chamber with bulletins hot from the Telex machines. Paragraph by paragraph, the dismayed delegates followed De Gaulle's lengthy discourse. It became clear that further discussion was pointless...