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
His family had to wait almost two weeks before a telegram arrived, addressed to his mother.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024
Those charged included a dentist, a clairvoyant, an amateur pilot and a man running a large QAnon telegram group.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2024
Publication of the Zimmermann telegram was followed by German U-boat attacks on four American ships, which were torpedoed without warning.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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