Word: dispatchable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...BROKE NO AGREEMENT WITH MY COLLEAGUES AT WAKE. WE AGREED TO FILE A POOLED DISPATCH. THIS WAS WRITTEN JOINTLY BY THE A.P/S TONY VACCARO, BOB NIXON OF THE I.N.S., AND MYSELF. IT WAS ADDRESSED TO THE A.P., U.P. AND I.N.S. I DID NOT FILE ONE WORD OF INDEPENDENT COPY FROM WAKE...
...defend a buffer zone south of the Yalu, and pin down the U.S. divisions.to a harsh winter war of attrition, the highly audible wails of dismay from the U.S.-from the public, which had expected the Korean war to be ended by now, and from statesmen who wanted to dispatch U.S. divisions to Europe-must have been music to Red ears...
Sharma could not keep such a good story to himself. London's Sunday Dispatch and Sunday Times bloomed with graphic accounts of the Lama's tearful departure. India's newspapers added that he left at the head of a yak caravan, laden with fabulous stores of gold and diamonds. Soberly, the New York Times's careful Robert Trumbull relayed deadpan accounts from the Indian papers...
...services might settle for 2,300,000). Besides that, the Administration talked of a stand-by force of millions of trained men who could be mobilized at a moment's notice. Its policy now is to match U.S. world obligations with U.S. strength. Soon the U.S. would dispatch five divisions and an air force of upwards of 800 planes to Europe. In keeping with this stern-sounding policy, these divisions would be combat-seasoned regulars from Korea; at least one would be sent to Europe direct, without being given furloughs...
Only one thing about the president of Ivy bothered the president of Purdue: "No other college president I know can solve a brand-new problem every week with neatness and dispatch, in exactly one half hour. It's pretty discouraging...