Word: forthwith
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...Fraga, the navy's Rear Admiral Gaston C. Clement and the air force's Brigadier General Jorge Rojas Silveyra, accused Frondizi of "reneging" on his promise to take a firm stand against Cuba. They demanded that he fire his Foreign Minister and break diplomatic relations with Cuba forthwith...
Beria was invited forthwith to a special evening conference. To explain the presence of Moskalenko's men, he was told the meeting was to review defense problems. True to his word, Moskalenko had managed to smuggle a submachine gun into the building. He waited in the next room as the others started grilling Beria. They charged that he had been a secret agent for the British army during its occupation of Azerbaijan in 1918. Cried Khrushchev: "You are not a true Communist and never even joined a party organization." Beria, who was presumably above being frisked...
...considering from the rival firm of Thomas Agnew & Sons, Duveen blandly said: "Very nice, my dear fellow, very nice. But I suppose you are aware that those cherubs are homo sexual." As Duveen's biographer S. N. Behrman tells it, the painting went back to Agnew's forthwith...
...earthquake rumbled through Braintree, Mass. Shaken awake by the tremors, a 20-year-old schoolteacher was so impressed that he forthwith began a diary ("The house seemed to rock and reel"). These scratched words were the first of what was to become one of the great avalanches of words in U.S. history. The schoolteacher was John Adams, who became the U.S.'s first Vice President, its second President, and the patriarch of a remarkable clan of statesmen and historians that ranged from his son, John Quincy Adams the sixth President, to Charles Francis Adams,* Secretary of the Navy under...
...neutralists dithered and Khrushchev cracked his grim jokes, the Communists kept up their harassment of West Berlin, complaining that some of the passengers flying in from West Germany were "revanchists, militarists, spies and subversives." This, said Moscow, must cease forthwith. Tartly, the U.S., Britain and France replied with joint notes, bluntly reminding the Soviets that the passenger traffic in the corridors to Berlin is no business of the Communists. A passenger buys a ticket, boards his plane and goes. This, said the U.S., is "well understood in societies where free men regulate their own lives in accordance with free choice...