Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Information Minister Alain Peyrefitte announced that if he were in office when La Religieuse was finished, he would "not hesitate" to ban it. As it turned out, Peyrefitte was not in office; the job fell to new Secretary of Information Yvon Bourges, but he imposed the ban with equal dispatch...
Perhaps the Cambridge police are just more used to protest marches. They planned well, then did their job with dispatch and fairness. The Boston police should follow their example...
...Honolulu like a monsoon. Hawaiians were not merely amazed at his exuberant ways; they thought that he was always drunk. His appetite for experience was enormous. Ill in bed with saddle boils, he had himself carried to an interview with survivors of a shipwreck at sea, had his dispatch thrown aboard a ship already under sail. Astride a spavined horse named Oahu, he viewed a bone-strewn battleground, exotic foliage, and "long-haired, saddle-colored maidens" with the rapt admiration of a Peeping Tom newly admitted to Eden...
...scene that could happen only in the House of Commons. There on the front row sprawled the Prime Minister, his feet propped on the table beside the dispatch box, where his Chancellor of the Exchequer droned on sonorously about Britain's finances. From the jammed benches on both sides of the chamber came a cacophony of hoots and jeers. It got louder and louder as James Callaghan spelled out the political package that he and Harold Wilson had designed to please the public. First, he promised that there would be no major tax increases for the average wage earner...
Peculiarly Clear. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, however, was less worried about the physical dangers of Johnson's trip than it was angry at its "showy and confusing" detraction from "the primary business at hand, which is to gain agreement on terms for a peace conference." Others might be impressed by talk of social reform in Viet Nam; not the PD, which found the idea "utterly fantastic." It would require conquering the Viet Cong, and that would take "a military effort of many long years-the establishment of an armed American occupation...