Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wounded. Officials of Pernambuco state belatedly impounded what food was left (speculators had bought up most of the crop, were selling it at markups of 500% to 1,000%). The federal government declared an emergency throughout the Northeast, and the U.S. Food for Peace program prepared to dispatch 6,000 tons of beans...
...even before that happened, he would load more than 100 Negroes on two buses in just one day. He would help dispatch unemployed Negroes from Little Rock to Boston and ask Senate Candidate Teddy Kennedy to care for them at Hyannisport. He would shuttle others off to Richard Nixon with demands to have the former Vice President establish them in his home town of Whittier, Calif...
...paper's managing editor disagreed, said his staff had done a "lousy job." The Advisory Board has come under criticism on several counts. One is favoritism, or at least finding excellence in the same places. The New York Times has won 27 prizes, Pulitzer's own Post-Dispatch twelve-including three of the five public service awards from 1948-52-and the Associated Press 14 (against only three for United Press International, the competing U.S. wire service). Some of the awards have praised journalistic achievements of dubious value, e.g., the Detroit Free Press's 1931 coverage...
...Thine Is the World!" "There is a facetious story," he wrote in one dispatch to Tribune readers, "of two naturalists who were examining a bear; the one who had never seen such an animal before inquired whether that animal dropped its cubs alive or laid eggs; to which the other, who was better informed, replied: 'That animal is capable of anything...
...immediate favorable response by foreign officials was not accidental. "Unbeknownst to Marshall, Undersecretary Acheson had called in key English correspondents, briefed them on the upcoming proposal and urged them to dispatch the full text of Marshall's remarks in their papers," according to a member of that year's senior class, Douglass Cater, '47, now Washington editor of The Reporter.14Secretary of State Marshall in the Commencement procession...