Word: dispatch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quarterback Mike Bassett immediately attacked the Knights' undermanned end corps. He pitched out to Wally Grant on a power sweep to the right, and when Bill Grana threw a block the swift sophomore was free. Stephenson came across field to dispatch the last defender, and Grant had his first varsity touchdown. John Hartranft kicked the first of his Three extra points, and the score was 7-0 with only 1:54 elapsed in the game...
...when he showed up next morning for the weekly White House breakfast with Democratic legislative leaders, he was unbraced for anything festive. Then President Kennedy had a surprise cake brought in, and the Texas birthday boy was downright breathless. It took him four mighty puffs to dispatch the cake's five candles. Tch-tched Florida Senator George Smathers: "Shameful for an ex-Senator...
...China in violation of U.S. law that American citizens cannot deal with the Red Chinese; it all had to be replaced with substitutes. In London the automatic-elevator doors closed so fast, the telephones worked so sporadically and the Muzak system sometimes shrieked so loudly that Hilton had to dispatch experts from the U.S. to straighten things out. The air-conditioning failed in one of the New York Hilton's kitchens, driving the heat up so high that it set off the fire sprinklers and drenched the chef and the food. Someone discovered that the automatic billing system liked...
...June 21 story on banking immediately opened by mentioning a savings and loan association and went on to state that a savings and loan association would dispatch a "bank officer...
Lexington Dispatch...