If the underlined word were replaced with the word "typed,"
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Read the excerpt from The Dark Game: True Spy Stories
from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles.
One week later, news of the Zimmermann telegram was
splashed across the front page of American newspapers.
On April 6, 1917, the Congress of the United States declared
war on Germany and its allies.
more judgmental.
more optimistic.
less intellectual.
less dramatic