Word: prompting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...credit of the Eisenhower Administration was the fact that by firmness at Quemoy and the prompt dispatch of marines and soldiers to Lebanon, it had prevented dramatic deterioration of the international position of the U.S. And it was a U.S. victory of sorts that Gamal Abdel Nasser, who began 1958 by triumphantly merging Egypt and Syria into the United Arab Republic, found himself at year's end at last aware that his Communist ally was a concealed enemy...
...international aviation regulations. But had anyone also obtained the overflight clearance through diplomatic channels required before the King's plane could cross a foreign border? There was an embarrassing silence in Amman. Someone thought the flight had been cleared through U.N. Representative Pier Spinelli. In a prompt denial, Spinelli snapped: "What do you think we are, a travel bureau?" The chief of the Royal Jordanian Air Force, Lieut. Colonel Ibrahim Othman, who still suffers occasional blackouts from head injuries suffered when he was caught and badly mauled by the Baghdad mob during the July 14 rebellion in Iraq, remembered...
...done, the researchers were more tentative in their reports. Most positive was Houston's famed surgeon, Michael E. DeBakey, who reported that in a random series of 150 stroke victims examined by arterial X rays, no fewer than 43% were adjudged capable of getting substantial relief from prompt surgery...
...Senior Prompt. In Davenport, Iowa. Henry Zimmerman, 79, retired foundry inspector, entered St. Ambrose College as a freshman, explained: "I just got tired of loafing...
...flair for casting opinions in clear and forceful English. Wrote Judge Stewart, upholding the habeas corpus appeal of a prisoner who had been whisked before a judge late at night, convicted of rape on the basis of a forced confession, and sentenced to life without benefit of counsel: "The prompt and vigorous administration of the criminal law is to be commended and encouraged. But swift justice demands more than just swiftness...