telegram
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"The telegram boy said, 'I'm sorry to tell you, but this is bad news'," he says.
From BBC • Aug. 11, 2025
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
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
They were arguing about the telegram that had just arrived from the attorney general.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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