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

This cablegram cracked the door toward resumption of diplomatic relations.

From Time Magazine Archive

President Coolidge also received a cablegram from President Antonio Barcelo of the Porto Rican Senate and Speaker Jose Toussoto of the Puerto Rican House, confirming the resolution's import.

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

On the twenty-sixth, just before we went on the ship, my father sent my grandmother a cablegram: sail- ING TODAY.

From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz