Word: telegramming
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...jawbone were removed from the mouth of President Ortiz Rubio. The other casualties were bandaged and sent home. Speechless but undaunted, as befits a direct descendant of Tzintzicna, last of the 19 Tarrascan Kings who ruled under the Aztec Emperors of Mexico, President Ortiz Rubio insisted on scrawling a telegram to his two handsome sons Fernando and Guillermo, at school in Gettysburg...
...Sleepless, distraught by rumblings from many sources against his regime, the Dictator impulsively drafts a circular telegram to the 17 principal Captains General and garrison commanders in Spain. He has appointed them all. He can dismiss them. He asks them whether they think he should continue to dictate, whether he still has their "confidence...
...this 3 a. m. telegram the Dictator will later say in one of his last official communiques: "I felt a dizziness which alarmed me as I was writing it. I sent it straight off without even reading the text...
...What is this I have seen in the newspapers about a circular telegram from you to the Captains General?" asks His Majesty King Alfonso...
They learn that His Majesty is receiving telegrams from many of the Captains General pledging support to "any Prime Minister in whom the King has confidence." The Dictator's game is therefore up. He and his all-night colleagues adopt a resolution that he has committed an "error" (i. e. the telegram) and should present the Cabinet's resignation to the King...