Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...margarine, most foods are rationed. In Saxony, for example, each person's theoretical weekly allowance is one-half pound of meat, two eggs, one-half pound of hard sausage, and about six ounces of butter. The favorite strategy for buying up unrationed goods in short supply is to dispatch every member of the family to stand in line at different shops. Prices are about four or five times as high as in West Germany, and many families help make ends meet by selling such scarce items as coffee ($10 per Ib.) at a markup to people...
...Hora, which said that the President "was assassinated by those opposed to racial equality. Bobby Kennedy's agitation in favor of civil rights ended in his brother's death." Tass, the Russian wire service, peddled a predictable line. "Commentators in Dallas," said Tass's dispatch to Moscow, "are connecting the crime with the activities of ultra-right-wing organizations...
Amid cries of approval and derision from both sides of the packed House, the Prime Minister rose, nervously shuffled his notes and placed them neatly on the dispatch box in front of him. "It's been twelve years since I last spoke in this House," he began.* In the next few minutes it became all too plain that the cozier, clubbish style of the House of Lords had blunted Douglas-Home's debating thrust, and his supporters missed his usual pungent wit. After a long, meandering preamble, he launched into a lackluster exposition of ambitious government policies...
...London Observer once wrote. "There is scarcely a Press lord in Fleet Street who has not a finger or two missing to prove it." In 1936, five years after setting foot on Fleet Street, Journalist Churchill quit two papers at once-the Daily Mail and the Sunday Dispatch-because both refused to print one of his contributions. By nature mettlesome, he did not spare even his employers; he wrote of the "rivers of pornography" flowing from Fleet Street, attacked publishers as easily as Prime Ministers. When Fleet Street hit back, Churchill sued. In 1956 he recovered $14,000 in damages...
...such pseudonyms as Kasket Karl (Denmark), Tuff a Victor (Sweden), and Jan Met de Pet (The Netherlands). When Andy spanned the Atlantic to join the stable of New York's Hall Syndicate, his success was equally smashing. Among the charter subscribers: the Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, and Marshalltown (Iowa) Times-Republican...