Word: forthwith
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...Building regulations permitted, the office will be partitioned forthwith...
Everyone did. Molly was duly sworn and forthwith broke out a batch of champagne. As the ladies sipped, the new officer let them in on a secret-she felt she was too fat and had decided to diet off her "Christmas blubber" before being measured for a uniform. But this, it became obvious, was only a technical delay. Her maid immediately began answering the telephone with the words: "Colonel Thayer's residence...
...testimony which had done the trick for her the last time. She had divorced Briskin in April and was reconciled with him before the decree became final. But he had gone right on being "rude to her guests" and making her "very, very nervous." Her new decree was granted forthwith...
Before a battery of microphones at the annual dinner of the New York County Lawyers Association, Governor Dewey advocated: calling up the entire National Guard forthwith; universal military service; de-mothballing the entire Navy; a draft step-up to give the U.S. 100 divisions, each nearly twice the size of Russian divisions; an Air Force of at least 80 groups...
...hide off with a Senate speech the very next day, and he kept jumping up during dinner to repeat the announcement. Finally Pearson asked him how his Wisconsin income-tax case was progressing (the state is ordering McCarthy to explain his nonpayment of last year's taxes). Forthwith the burly Senator grabbed the 6-foot columnist by the neck and invited him outside to fight. Pearson agreed. They were duly separated, but when Pearson went to the cloakroom McCarthy followed, and pinned the columnist by the arms...