Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thayer has an old-fashioned sense of style when it comes to diplomatic correspondence. He regrets the passing of the formal dispatch, which was invariably to be addressed to "The Honorable, The Secretary of State," and started with "Sir: I have the honor to report . . ." Using these phrases, says Thayer, "the writer was at once in the proper mood of dignified respect for the recipient and at the same time filled with a sense of responsibility as the author of a state paper that one day might appear in the history books...