Word: dispatching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moslem. Parliament is apportioned on a 6-to-5 ratio favoring Christians, as are the army and the civil service. From time to time, the system has come close to collapse. Until last week, its severest test occurred in 1958, when strife between the sects led President Eisenhower to dispatch the U.S. Sixth Fleet and 14,500 Marines to prevent an Arab takeover...
SILLY as this imaginary news dispatch may seem, it is not much sillier than the rumor, currently sweeping U.S. college campuses, that Paul McCartney is dead. As with most rumors, no one really knows its source. It has been variously traced to a thesis by an Ohio Wesleyan University student, a satirical but deadpan story in the Oct. 14 issue of the University of Michigan Daily, and a Detroit disk jockey who spread much the same nonsense over radio station WKNR. Since the rumor spread, Beatle fans have diligently parsed the albums of their heroes for clues corroborating what they...
...center's activities have been unqualified triumphs. Citron still blushes over Report No. 452: based on a U.P.I. dispatch, it said that a weird, 35-ton sea monster, possibly a survivor from the age of dinosaurs, had washed ashore at Tecolutla, Mexico. A few days later the center conceded that the "living fossil" was an ordinary whale...
...limited "to a handful of unkempt yippies raising hell," but "lies deep within this nation's vitals." He endorsed the October 15 Moratorium in the hope that it might "give the President that essential broad base of constructive support which will enable him to move with boldness, decision and dispatch to do the nation's obvious bidding...
...WASHINGTON, D.C.- The nation's unemployment rate experienced its biggest increase since the Eisenhower administration last week, promising to ignite a fresh dispatch over President Nixon's course in courting inflation...