1.   Analysts at the mapping agency would look at the photographs on computer screens and describe them over the telephone to officials who needed the information.

2.   Described over the years as demure and trim, with hazel eyes and a weakness for hats, the woman who invented kissable lipstick never married.

3.   As the convoy sped across Serb territory, the Dutch described over the radio the direction they were heading and the rivers and mountains they saw.

4.   Radio reporters described it over cellular telephones.