cablegram

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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

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

He was told that Mr. Levey had received a cablegram from Mrs. Bartholomew saying she was traveling "incognito."

From Time Magazine Archive

It took ex-Theater Critic Brooks Atkinson six months and a personal cablegram to Joseph Stalin to get accredited to Moscow.

From Time Magazine Archive

"No, I have been in Mexico and South America and had someone send the cablegram for me from Japan," Haupt lied.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple