Word: dispatchable
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...that "we cannot win, and, even more important, one we should not wish to win." As far back as the early days of John F. Kennedy's presidency, when Berlin, Cuba and Laos loomed as the most menacing trouble spots for the U.S., Galbraith was counseling against the dispatch of even a few American combat troops to South Viet Nam. "A few," he advised Kennedy in 1962, "will mean more and more and more." His forecast proved flawless. From 773 advisers at the start of the decade, the U.S. force grew to more than 16,000 under Kennedy and half...
Lyndon Johnson, too, profited from the lesson of the Bay of Pigs. When he and his advisers decided that U.S. intervention was required in the Dominican Republic in 1965, he used no halfway measures. The U.S. landed in force, the job was done with dispatch, and the critics who carped about "gunboat diplomacy" were simply ignored...
Nayar faced Colin Adair, the Canadian singles champion, in the finals, and beat him with dispatch...
...lands that the natives suffer with "silent resignation." "Shooting for the pot" (living off the land) for part of the journey, as did the Stanley expedition, Glenn briefly tried to master hurling the knobkerrie, a throwing stick, and missed his target. But he used a Winchester 70 rifle to dispatch-in two shots-a massive rogue elephant that was ravaging the crops. "There was a cause for destruction," he told his viewers. "But I'm not proud of killing this great beast." Then the caravan smoked great chunks of it over a makeshift barbecue...
...challengers would then hold county elections of their own--in as many as 60 counties--choose a state convention, approve the resolutions, and dispatch them and a well-integrated delegation to Chicago...