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Word: dispatches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sigh for death and life and sigh for a lack of spice and sigh for a lack of taste and sigh for too much ketchup and sigh for no more cigarettes sigh for biology sigh for bankers sigh for the good old days sigh for the future sigh with dispatch easily naturally inconspicuously oafishily amorally bitterly without emotion sigh on a diet sigh on a toot sigh in your undies sigh in your suit sigh at great concerts of geniuses sigh at baseball sigh at hunger and horror and fun but whatever you do don't let yourself be melancholy...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: Passing On A'Sigh for the Seventies | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...were even stranger and more bizarre than their crimes. The police case was based on the tale of an accused murderer, Susan Denise Atkins, 21. She sketched out a weird story of a mystical, semi-religious hippie drug-and-murder cult led by a bearded, demonic Mahdi able to dispatch his zombie-like followers, mostly girls wearing hunting knives, to commit at least eight murders and, police say, possibly four others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE DEMON OF DEATH VALLEY | 12/12/1969 | See Source »

...Army investigators four months to finally place charges against just one man?Lieut. Calley?on Sept. 5. Presidential Security Adviser Henry Kissinger was notified in November?and so, presumably, was Nixon. The fact that Calley was charged with an unspecified number of murders produced only a small Associated Press dispatch on Sept. 8. It took the enterprise of a tiny Washington news service to break the story on a major scale on Nov. 13 (see THE PRESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MY LAI: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...Hersh put aside his book and started tracking down information that led to an interview with Calley on Nov. 9. He wrote the story the next day, and having failed to interest LIFE and Look when he began his research, decided to peddle it through a Washington outfit called Dispatch News Service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Miscue on the Massacre | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...David Obst of the Dispatch News Service, calling from Washington," he told about 50 editors in the U.S. and Canada. "I've got a story I think you'll be interested in." Most of the editors responded with remarks like "What's that agency again?" Obst persisted, asking $100 if the story ran. Some 35 newspapers (including the Chicago Sun-Times, the Milwaukee Journal and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch) printed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Miscue on the Massacre | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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