Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since the war's start, allied unity has been more important than lethality. Unless NATO reaches a credible consensus to gather a serious invasion force, the Tower of Babel talk won't do much to move Milosevic. Threatening to dispatch troops at the start might have given him pause, or at least forced some of his soldiers to stay home and protect Serbian borders instead of depopulating Kosovo. Had a relatively small ground force been deployed by now, it could have made the air war more lethal by spotting targets and flushing Serbian armor from hiding. But now the noisy...
...will host its first regional since 1991 and bid for a repeat College World Series championship. In 1998, the No. 14 Trojans used 23 hits and a ninth-inning grand slam by outfielder Jason Lane to dispatch Pac-10 rival Arizona State in a 21-14 slugfest...
...wonder whether the hype surrounding Everest has been ultimately detrimental to the original purpose of taking the climbing challenge as articulated so eloquently by Mallory. The mountainzone Web site makes for great reading as the current climbers dispatch their latest findings, but there is a commercial quality to it which is disturbing. Those of us interested in the stories of those who have attempted (successfully or unsuccessfully) to climb Everest are fascinated by the idea of the physical and mental strength required to attempt the summit...
...truly has faith in the innate rightness and righteousness of a broad, liberal arts education and its ability to deliver truth even to the most unenlightened, does it not follow that the proper course is to dispatch as many missionaries as possible, even into war, wilderness and the lions' den? DAVID J. RISGIN New Haven, April...
...truly has faith in the innate rightness and righteousness of a broad, liberal arts education and its ability to deliver truth even to the most unenlightened, does it not follow that the proper course is to dispatch as many missionaries as possible, even into war, wilderness and the lions...