Word: forthwith
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...That was the advisers' function-and the final decisions were the President's. There was no doubt whatever about where he stood: during the hottest moments of the Cuba crisis he was planning in the most positive terms to invade Cuba if the Soviet Union did not forthwith promise to remove its missiles...
...claimed they had watched the crime through holes in a door. Rogers lugged the door into court. He placed the defendant behind the door, put a girl on his lap, and invited judge and jury to peep through the door. None of them could see the defendant, who was forthwith acquitted...
...House of Commons by which Macmillan has sought to soft-pedal this potentially explosive issue. When cables reporting Adenauer's TV comments came clattering into London from the British embassy in Bonn late one night, Macmillan was sufficiently irked to prod the Foreign Office into action forthwith. At i a.m., when it takes a major crisis to awaken Whitehall, the government released excerpts from a letter written by the Prime Minister to Adenauer emphasizing Britain's "wish to join wholeheartedly" in Europe's "efforts to move toward greater political union...
...crack Capitol Limited. "The train traveled so fast through the Alleghenies that I found it difficult to sleep or shave, much less keep my coffee in its cup," complained Jervis Langdon Jr. Since he happens to be president of the B. & O., he forthwith ordered engineers to slow down. Trains, he argued, should go back to the old values of comfort and contemplation that they once offered...
...desecration of the buildings belonging to the taxpayers." Cried Morse: "There is a growing social pattern of holding affairs in rooms in the Capitol and in the Senate Office Buildings at which hard liquor is served. In my opinion it cannot be justified. It ought to be stopped forthwith ... I will not knowingly attend such an affair, and if I find myself in such an affair and hard liquor is being served, I will immediately absent myself from such an affair...