Word: prompted
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...holy table as in an apostolic age," clergy and even the bishop sit among the people, and laymen rise from their pews in the congregation to read the Old Testament lesson and the Epistle. Even the unvested choir is no longer segregated, but sits with the congregation to prompt them...
This scene was symbolic of Kennedy's whole tour from Bethlehem--where started the day in the living room of an unemployed steelworker--to Scranton, where he pledged prompt Federal aid to prevent "young people moving out of these families being broken up, and whole communities withering away...
Because fire apparatus was unable to pass through the street with cars parked on both sides, the Masters gave prompt attention to the recommendation...
...With little room for positive proposals left to him after the President's speech, Khrushchev-"the head of the greatest colonial empire of the present day,'' as the New York Times put it-delivered a rambling 2½-hr. farrago that included a demand for a prompt end to colonial rule in the world's remaining colonies, and a sharp attack on Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold, calling for a triumvirate to take his place. Khrushchev seemed bent on destroying Hammarskjold's usefulness (calling him a lackey of the imperialist powers), as the Soviets had destroyed...
...Brooms. A dozen women, fed up with the male politicos who had increased municipal debt while letting the town decay, formed their own "United for Walsenburg" party, drafted a stern austerity platform calling for prompt payment of the town's debts and no salaries for the mayor and town council. The women pored over civics textbooks, stormed into meetings of the all-male city council, journeyed to Denver to seek advice from Democratic Governor Stephen McNichols. Though Walsenburg had never before elected a woman to any office, the United party put up a slate of seven of them, recruited...