Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ushered in to Dewey, the colonel produced a second sealed envelope, this one containing a lengthy dispatch from Marshall. After reading the first two paragraphs, which warned that disclosure of the contents might impede the U.S. war effort, Dewey silently folded the document, put it back in the envelope and returned it to the colonel. He explained that he did not want to be bound in discussing important campaign issues. Two days later, in Albany, the colonel approached Dewey with a dispatch almost identical to the one he had refused to read in Tulsa...
...harbor. Moody Cypriots stared with astonishment as 1,400 blue-bereted paratroopers and 1,300 airmen moved without armed protection towards the tent city hastily built for them by theBritish near World War II Tymbou air base. If that did not give a clue to what was happening, the dispatch of another ship did. It was a 3,226-ton tanker named Bacchus, and it gurgled toward Cyprus with a full cargo of wine. The French had arrived in force on Cyprus...
...platoon of Cabinet ministers, a horde of judges and a mass of minor officials swarmed at the airport under a broiling sun and presented the visitors with six bouquets of flowers and batches of garlands. It was a command performance. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had been shown a dispatch printed in a U.S. newspaper reporting the cool kiss-off the Warrens had gotten when they arrived...
...however, disturbed by Egypt's growing influence in Bahrein and anxious to avoid another blow to British prestige like Jordan's unseemly ouster of Lieut. General John Bagot Glubb (TIME, March 12), pressured Belgrave to get out while the getting was good. Last week, in a brief dispatch from "our own correspondent in Bahrein," the London Times reported that "the Sheik of Bahrein has with reluctance accepted the resignation of Sir Charles Belgrave, his adviser for over 30 years." (The seven-line dispatch did not identify the Times's "own correspondent"−Sir Charles Belgrave himself...
...income. In 1943, Mazurkiewicz failed in his first attempt, when poison did not work on a Polish underground officer. He profited by this first distressing experience, put so much cyanide in the vodka of a black-marketeer that the fellow gave up his ghost and $1.200 with heartening dispatch. Victim No. 2, carrying 160.000 zlotys, was shot and his body dumped in a river...