Word: prompting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weapons & Technology Prompt a New Look
...veilless Princesses Aisha (TIME, Nov. n), Malika and Nuzha met local newsfolk, acquitted themselves well through French and Arabic interpreters. Their little sister Amina, 4. skipped the conference in favor of a nap. A newshen inquired: "Is the Princess Aisha engaged?" Ignoring her linguistic aides, Aisha snapped a prompt no in English. Then someone inquired whether dynamic Feminist Aisha is regarded by Moroccan women as her country's own Joan of Arc. "Certainly not!" she replied, eyes twinkling. "Wasn't she known as a liberator of men?" At week's end King Mohammed V and his daughters...
...virus has already caused "the most widespread influenza epidemic in 40 years," said Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of the U.S. Public Health Service. His estimate: 15 million to 20 million cases in the U.S. since Sept.1. Though the peak of the first wave has passed, Dr. Burney urged prompt use of the vaccine now available to guard against a second wave early in 1958. ¶ Grants of $500,000 each to three universities (Harvard, Johns Hopkins and Pittsburgh) were announced by the Rockefeller Foundation for training and research programs to prepare public health experts to guard civilians against...
...shape of the pulses they send out. This amounts to a sort of code that the enemy must break, and often he has no time to do it. If he is attacked by a radar-guided missile, he may have only a few seconds to mimic its voice and prompt it to swerve aside into empty...
...experience." Rimbaud's Le Bateau ivre took Verlaine's breath away. In the cafés the "child Shakespeare" insulted every poet he met, interrupted their readings-aloud with sharp cries of "Merde!" One day he denounced a critic as an "excreter of ink." The critic took prompt revenge by noting that, at a subsequent first night, among those present was "the saturnine poet Paul Verlaine who gave his arm to a charming young person named Miss Rimbaud...