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cablegram

[key-buhl-gram] / ˈkeɪ bəlˌgræm /


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Moves are communicated over long distances — in less technologically savvy times often by handwritten mail or cablegram — and each player has days to make a move.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2012

And Count Volpi read a cablegram from Premier Mussolini: "Please convey to the members of the American Commission the expression of my gratification, voicing the sentiments of the Italian people."

From Time Magazine Archive

Thoroughly annoyed by Mr. Britten, the State Department would have liked to discourage Premier Baldwin from doing more than acknowledge the receipt of the Britten cablegram.

From Time Magazine Archive

During the Embassy garden party a cablegram was handed Lady Astor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last month they started a cablegram campaign against El Lider.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García




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