Word: dispatches
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Sources: Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch; C-SPAN; AP (2); Wall Street Journal...
...moment his colleague has been shot. Running toward the office window, he leaps out, head first, his face a mesh mosaic of broken plastic, as if it were a crushed stained-glass mask. He lands on the adjacent building the shots came from, using his own artillery to dispatch several of his would-be killers, including one with a bullet that can turn corners. Alone and triumphant, he hears a voice from afar saying, "They were just decoys," and BANG! he's killed by a shell that enters his skull from the back and explodes out of his forehead. Then...
...story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch put it succinctly: A-B is "a symbol of the city on par with the Gateway Arch...
When I got off the flight, having said bye-bye to the line of uninterested passengers, I felt cured of my discomfort with the passenger--flight attendant relationship. A little eye contact and the speedy dispatch of my garbage are all they're looking for. That and the free flights for everyone they know...
...Global Dispatch For a new postcard from around the world every day, visit time.com