Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more it rains and the more it floods, the more I think God is trying to tell us something. Recently Missouri and Illinois have allowed riverboat gambling on the Mississippi River." -- Judy Martin, Alton, Illinois, resident, in a letter to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
...city's agony has moved the U.S. to dispatch 30 military aircraft, including A-10 attack planes and helicopter gunships, to Aviano Air Base in Italy. Without being specific, a Pentagon spokesman said the deployment gives NATO the muscle to take action in Bosnia to protect U.N. forces struggling to deliver humanitarian aid "if the U.N. gives the signal." The allies, he said, are agreed on the mechanism and procedures, and the targets have been selected. "We know how to do the job," said the official. "The ball's in Boutros-Ghali's court...
...pushes the album into the numinous region of The Joshua Tree. Bono still hasn't found what he's looking for, but the search continues to redefine the boundaries of modern rock. Like a memoir written while the applause is still thundering, Zooropa is a plugged-in, spaced-out dispatch from the blinking LED eye of the multimedia storm...
...friends, don't get lost in the study of turtles. Endless, vertiginous self-examination leads not only to a sterile moral life, but also to a stilted intellectual life. Yes, examine. But do it with dispatch and modesty and then get on with it: Act and go and seek...
...comparatively easy. Only freshman Tod Meringoff, playing in the fourth position, took three sets to dispatch his Penn opponent...