Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japan, where the literacy rate is probably the highest in the world (98%), newspapers are big and often sensational. For a story that may make bright reading, it is not unusual for editors to dispatch their own planes, huge task forces of reporters and hundreds of carrier pigeons to bring bulletins back...
Politics around the Cooper household was all-pervading, absorbed by osmosis from infancy, and Judge Cooper inculcated his children with an iron code of honor and a sense of unaffected friendliness for less fortunate neighbors. Often, when he sat down to a heaping dinner, the judge would dispatch one of the boys to a back-alley neighbor with a tray of food from his own table...
...Washington, the President invited Russell to the White House for dinner, and Mrs. Lincoln sent bouquets. Secretary of State Seward had him round for whist, showed him the day's confidential dispatch to the U.S. Minister in London, and painstakingly explained...
During the four years since Britain recognized Red China, the British charge d'affaires in Peking suffered the kind of humiliation that a century ago would have led Lord Palmerston to dispatch a gunboat. The top Communist brass snubbed him; their juniors let him cool his heels in anterooms. His mission consisted largely of trying to free Britons who had been clapped in jail by Mao Tse-tung, and trying to get compensation for British firms whose assets had been expropriated by the Reds. The Communists never bothered to send diplomatic representation to London...
...every case of threatened infringement of academic freedom ends on a sad note. Often lucid men acting with dispatch effectively challenge attempts to curb free expression. Such is the instance in the argument between the Hall County Farm Bureau and Professor C. Clyde Mitchell of the University of Nebraska, in which the professor's right to state his opinions was forcefully defended by his university...