Word: prompted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...success is the fact that Prime Minister Harold Wilson, long opposed to joining the European Six, seems converted to the cause. Last week he stumped the Continent to gain support for British membership. If Charles de Gaulle ever withdraws his veto and lets Britain in, there will be other prompt applications for Common Market membership; most of the seven members of the European Free Trade Association, which has achieved a success of its own, want to join...
...Prompt Promise. Baker also evoked Lyndon Johnson's name four times. When he found in the summer of 1962 that he was desperately short of cash for his $1,200,000 Maryland shore Carousel Motel, Baker testified, he took his woes to Johnson, whom he described as "the best friend I had around the Capitol." Baker said: "The then Vice Presi dent picked up the phone and called his friend and my friend-Senator Kerr. He then advised me to go immediately to Senator Kerr's office, which...
Buckley would not be likely to agree with this well-intentioned analysis. It is his contention that the liberals in city government, particularly in New York City, have tried to plaster over major problems with a complex bureaucratic machinery that ultimately compounds rather than rights the evils which prompt its creation...
...resolution was suggested by James M. Klebba, a third-year law student and treasurer of the Democratic Club. Klebba fears that the additional attention directed at Harvard after Secretary McNamara's visit might prompt an HUAC subpoena...
...dorm crew's normal work capacity requires 140 students--125 absolutely necessary for service plus a 15-man supplementary "crash crew." According to Smith, this force is always reduced at several times during the school year, particularly after November hour exams when poor grades prompt many freshmen--who make up the majority of the dorm crew--to give up their jobs...