911 calls started pouring into police dispatch lines.
The most recent typesetters specially designed for use with the Teletypesetter offer such technical refinements as the elimination of the composing stick and immediate dispatch of the line to the elevator, simplifying the path taken by the matrices; and electromagnetic, rather than mechanical coupling, which speeds the starting up of the casting cycle.
Later, a one-line dispatch from the North's official Korean Central News Agency confirmed his arrival.
Zaragoza sent news of the victory in his famous one-line dispatch to President Benito Juárez, "The national arms have been covered with glory".
Congress leaders, their political prestige as well as civic order on the line, dispatched thousands of riot police officers at great public cost to ensure the movie could be shown.
And even though a lot of the material was in last week's news and formed the basis of a Channel 4's Dispatches, reading it line by line, deception by deception, is genuinely shocking.
"Simmering at the End of the Line" (Dispatches, Aug. 10), about the oppressive heat in the Lower East Side-Second Avenue subway station, calls attention to a perennial problem ironically made much worse by the air-conditioning of subway trains.
Bellini was probably the purest bel canto master, but an opera like "Norma" is rich with declamatory vocal writing, fits of Romantic passion, fearsome outbursts for the volatile tragic heroine in which the soprano must summon chilling power and dispatch quick-paced lines full of daring leaps.
After 13 other aspiring art stars were dispatched with the line "Your work of art didn't work for us," Abdi Farah, 22, a smiling, sideways-cap-wearing painter and sculptor and probably the show's nicest guy, won the grand prize of $100,000 and an exhibition of his work at the Brooklyn Museum, along with the accolades of Mr. Powers and the show's other judges.
(After dispatching a three-line note accepting the lord's marriage proposal, Georgie reflects that it is "like answering a dinner-invitation... but I can't make it longer. I don't know what to say!") In a particularly sophisticated turn, Edith wrote several deflationary "reviews" of the work.
