Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nayar faced Colin Adair, the Canadian singles champion, in the finals, and beat him with dispatch...
...lands that the natives suffer with "silent resignation." "Shooting for the pot" (living off the land) for part of the journey, as did the Stanley expedition, Glenn briefly tried to master hurling the knobkerrie, a throwing stick, and missed his target. But he used a Winchester 70 rifle to dispatch-in two shots-a massive rogue elephant that was ravaging the crops. "There was a cause for destruction," he told his viewers. "But I'm not proud of killing this great beast." Then the caravan smoked great chunks of it over a makeshift barbecue...
...challengers would then hold county elections of their own--in as many as 60 counties--choose a state convention, approve the resolutions, and dispatch them and a well-integrated delegation to Chicago...
...have succeeded. His inability to convince either Congress or the nation of the need for a tax increase is one example. When the Detroit riots erupted last summer, Johnson had a splendid opportunity to rally the nation. Instead, he took a safe, legalistic and patently political approach, delaying the dispatch of federal troops until Michigan's Governor George Romney, a potential rival in 1968, was ready to admit that he had lost control of the situation. Johnson's follow-up actions were no more impressive. "Here we've had a whole summer of riots," said former White House Aide Richard...
...That wasn't the only gun jumped by Teamsters. Aware of the financial success of one of the interim papers during the last strike, three Teamster Union members helped form ahead of time a corporation designed to put out a paper once there was a shutdown. The Daily Dispatch was the result. Other Teamsters were also distributing two more interim papers, the Daily Press, which calls itself "the paper you've waited for since 1964," and the Daily Express, which boasts that it is "Michigan's largest daily newspaper." There is at least a smattering of truth...