Word: couriered
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...going to give up writing about the classics. But many of the best writers in English have been journalists: Dickens, Macaulay, Johnson, Mencken, Twain, Mailer. Even today some of the best writing is in journalism-perhaps the best. In a world of specialists, somebody has to be a courier among specialties...
...dailies in the secondary group are the Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Washington Post. The third-ranking papers include the Baltimore Sun, Los Angeles Times, Louisville Courier-Journal, Miami Herald and Wall Street Journal...
...told, "Inside this box is a wounded comrade. Take it and carry it around the block and bring it back here." The recruit is not inclined to ask questions. If he vomits or faints on the spot, he is gently steered to an easier job as a courier, or told to go home and simplv spy on his neighbors. If he passes, he is sent to one of dozens of different training camps in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq...
...Fatah's headquarters buildings in Amman, a hectic bustle reflects the growth of the movement. Switchboard operators bellow into makeshift World War II British field telephones, trying to make contact with branch offices in Salt or Irbid. Most communication is still by handwritten letter, carried by couriers on bicycles, in Jeeps or on foot. When a dusty Arab arrives with a tightly wadded piece of paper, Arafat scribbles an answer in the margin, then sends the courier off again. Agents arriving in little black Volkswagens dash up for conferences. A white ambulance pulls up bearing the insignia...
...much pain had been inflicted on America, right in her own living room, right at dinner time with the family. The sight of Chicago policemen beating and kicking people was too, too much, and America kicked back at the courier of the sight--the news people...