Word: dispatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caviar & Melba. Beverley began his glamorous career (in 1921) as a reporter for London's gaudy Sunday Dispatch. The aim of this journal was to supply its readers with "an astonishing array of obscure countesses, viscountesses and . . . wives of baronets, all pontificating with monotonous regularity on the problems of the hour." As many of these noble ladies were "barely literate," it was up to Beverley to invent their opinions in order to have something to report. The rest of his job was writing what the Dispatch called "caviar-and-champagne" items, e.g., MYSTERY DOCTOR DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF COUNTESS; ARAB...
...confidence, not so much over foreign policy itself as over the way Congress has often been left out of it. During the debate, some Congressmen recalled the results of the secret Churchill-Roosevelt agreements at Yalta and Teheran. Some were still smarting from Harry Truman's dispatch of troops to Korea without formally notifying Congress. The House was reminded that Churchill had hinted that the U.S. should send troops to Suez (although both Washington and London have emphatically denied that this implied any agreement...
London's Fleet Street produced its own spot of news: Lord Rothermere, 53, publisher of the Daily Mail, the Evening News and the Sunday Dispatch, filed a divorce petition against Lady Rothermere, 38, who did not contest. The corespondent: Ian Fleming, 42, foreign manager of the Kemsley newspapers...
...that expressing dissatisfaction with the regime is high treason in Soviet Russia; 15 million inmates of Stalin's concentration camps, and their relatives left behind, don't share Mr. Smith's view. The author goes on to say: ". . . The discontented have long ago been converted or dispatched . . ." As long as tyranny exists, there will be the discontented, and if the Communists had to "dispatch" (presumably to Siberia) all of them, this would mean 90% of the Russians...
...after the explosion, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch charged that the mine management had ignored advice from two federal mine inspectors that abandoned mine workings should either be sealed or ventilated, and that the air used for ventilating them should not be distributed to the rest of the mine. Mine Superintendent John R. Foster hotly insisted that "these are [both] strictly controversial matters...