telegram
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The author sent a telegram to his mother back home in French-controlled Algeria: “I’ve never missed you so much.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
A telegram in the same files shows a doctor from Cornwall, who was treating a 10-year-old child in 1944, pleading with the authorities for the medicine: "No hope without penicillin".
From BBC • Jun. 5, 2025
Posters in Detroit depicting a military man resembling Hitler were ordered, by telegram, to be destroyed.
From New York Times • May 30, 2024
After Finnegan’s death, a local newspaper published a telegram from Gen. Douglas MacArthur expressing condolences to Finnegan’s family:
From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2024
Not long after, a commentator informed the audience that he had just been handed a telegram.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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