Word: dispatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famous, and he maintained that he was in constant communication with his father, who died in 1930. Sir Arthur had not once "advised me wrong," he said. "The only time I did not follow his instructions, I was nearly killed." Wrote Doyle in this week's London Sunday Dispatch: "The life and teachings of our Lord showed the existence of a spiritual life and the application of its power to this world. These facts are endorsed and corroborated by the proofs of survival and of spiritual existence after the death of the physical body, which are embodied...
...notes lay before him; his hearing aid was in place. As he offered the government motion, approving Britain's 1955 Defense estimates, his voice, gathering strength, carried the familiar lisping growl to every corner of the chamber. Churchill plunged into his subject by slapping the sides of the dispatch...
...wooden dispatch box is about the size of a case of Scotch: two feet long, 18 inches wide, 12 inches high...
...public relations. The principle is that if you keep on saying your service is magnificent, the sucker will believe you against the testimony of experience. The millions of dollars spent on the traveler's credulity would be better spent getting him where he wants to go with reasonable dispatch...
...Duff does not think much of U.S. hangmanship. Master Sergeant John C. Woods, the U.S. executioner at the Nürnberg war-crimes trials, was accused of bungling the job. "Wherever I look among accounts of American hangings," writes Duff, "I find something to indicate a certain lack of dispatch. Yet there is one great comfort: America's hanged die as certainly as England...