Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai Stevenson, in Washington: "I believe we should give prompt and earnest consideration to stopping further tests of the hydrogen bomb. As a layman, I question the sense in multiplying and enlarging weapons of a destructive power already almost incomprehensible. Of course, I would call upon other nations to follow our lead...
Stevenson clanged swords with the Administration on a perilous issue: the U.S. "should give prompt and earnest consideration to stopping further tests of the hydrogen bomb . . . As a layman I question the sense in multiplying and enlarging weapons of a destructive power already almost incomprehensible." Equally drastic was his proposal that the U.S. put greater reliance on the United Nations as the agency for passing out its economic aid, thereby removing "economic development from the arena of the cold...
...progress and problems. Chief among them was Dr. Charles S. Cameron, 47, medical and scientific director of the American Cancer Society, whose new 268-page book for laymen (The Truth About Cancer; Prentice-Hall; $4.95) outlines the symptoms and the treatment of cancer. The book's main point: prompt medical checkups at the first sign of such cancer signals as bleeding, unusual growths can easily double the current U.S. cure rate of 25% in 500,000 new cases a year...
...party after the purges. A minor party worker in Kursk and the Crimea, she was called to Moscow and sent to the Institute of Chemical Technology. She graduated in 1941 as a chemical engineer. But instead of practicing her profession, she and her technical knowledge were used to prompt and police other workers. As she came up through the Moscow party secretariat, her speeches rang with carping phrases: "The Kirov dynamo factory is seriously lagging behind," or a local party committee "does not exercise influence on the march towards the fulfillment of the thematical plan of scientific research." She told...
...great leaders sit idly by and preach a gospel of gradualism while the South is torn by violence," Howard said. It was the federal government's refusal to enforce desegregation that allowed violence to start at the University of Alabama, he asserted, "and unless prompt action is taken, such violence will spread...