Word: forthwith
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...upstairs billiards room, and decking them out in wigs, cute tights and mirrors. They begin to parcel out the puns--"One to a customer, for starters"--and an amazing chain reaction begins. By the time the dust settles, the proliferating puns have assembled themselves into a SHOW, and forthwith commence forming a kickline. Someone pulls out a flute. Someone else pulls out an oboe. Someone else pulls out a drum set. OF THEIR OWN VOLITION, as if they had lives of their own, the puns arrange themselves into songs, into dances. Poppa Cork, the aging curator of the Hasty Pudding...
...skinnies of the world have, in effect, righteously established fitness standards that reward their own strengths and forgive their weaknesses. Then, like other converts, they have proclaimed in terms not open to contradiction that their god is the one true god, and that those human tubers who do not forthwith begin regular exercise programs will end up frying in their...
...week the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for their return to use. On the first day after the summer recess, the nine Justices announced that they would not reconsider their ruling of last July upholding the constitutionality of capital-punishment murder statutes in the three states.* The Justices forthwith lifted a stay that had been in effect since July, and put 183 convicted killers in immediate peril of their lives...
...determine whether the advantages of developing supersonic flight across the North Atlantic were outweighed by the damage the Concorde might do to the environment and the distress it could cause to people on the ground. If the flights created any serious problems, Coleman said, they would be stopped "forthwith...
...their actions. In South Africa, criticism of the country's racist policies has brought a harsh punishment to Dutch Reformed Minister C.F. Beyers Naude. Pastor Naude, now 60, was a prominent, rising churchman and Afrikaner supremacist until the 1960 Sharpeville massacre prodded his conscience. He forthwith set to work to destroy his church's theological approval of apartheid. Naude is now barred from the pulpit, ostracized, harassed by government prosecutors and denied his passport. Still, he says that being an outsider in his own society is "what God requires...