Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...embattled country. But Nixon's private talk to Chicago editors, the air of urgency in Washington, the alerting of troops, all had their intended effect. No one could be sure that a rescue attempt would not be used as pretext for intervention. The President's unexpected dispatch of U.S. troops into Cambodia last spring made his actions now unpredictable...
Beer at $1.40. On the first day, New York Timesman Eric Pace managed to get the U.S. embassy on the phone to dictate a pool dispatch. In the middle of a second dispatch, the line went dead. Soon the hotel-and indeed the whole city-was without electricity or running water. The hotel bar shut down, but an enterprising employee did a brisk business in Jordanian beer at $1.40 a bottle...
...flag. Black and white strife of the sort that has swept such Stateside bases as Camp Lejeune and Fort Bragg is turning up at U.S. military facilities overseas. The situation is so volatile among the 185,000 G.I.s stationed in West Germany that the Pentagon has decided to dispatch a team of military and civilian experts to investigate. When the team arrives this week in Europe, it will have plenty to study...
...chieftaincy by Queen Victoria, and an elaborate bathroom in which everything from bidet to bath salts is pink. She is accompanied on her official rounds by an official elephant-horn player, who blows great blasts to announce her arrival and departure. She conducts her tribal court with dispatch and dignity. At a recent session, she quickly settled the case of a man who was accused of beating his wife because the woman did not want him to marry her sister. As both husband and wife wailed, Madame Honoria briskly dismissed the man with a warning and told the woman...
...difficult circumstances of Russia at war, it was inevitable that Lenin would forego this gradualism and do what he wanted with a maximum of dispatch. The harshness and momentary brutality of centralism did prove necessary to defeat the Whites. In a country that had always been far from rich, it seemed fairly impossible to allow local autonomy in the distribution of material resources and still succeed in drawing the whole nation together. By and large, the Soviet citizenry acknowledged the need, if not the desirability, of centralism at the time of the civil...