Word: prompting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week Laotian Foreign Minister Khampan Panya took a step that his government had desperately hoped to avoid, directed an urgent appeal to the U.N. Cabled Khampan: "In face of this fagrant aggression, for which [North] Viet Nam must bear the entire responsibility . . . the Royal Laotian Government requests the prompt dispatch of a [U.N.] emergency force...
...Novosibirsk-many dispatches missed their U.S. deadlines because of interminable, often unexplained Red-tape delays. Correspondents found that the only sure way to get copy back home was by telephone: the Associated Press held one circuit seven hours-at $3 a minute, or $1,260 worth-to assure prompt coverage of Nixon's long talk with Khrushchev at the Premier's dacha outside Moscow...
...have scored some gains, Dr. Heller notes: one cancer victim out of three is now saved, meaning cured or enabled to survive five years or more. Until recently, it was only one in four (see chart). But this advance could be upped by 50% merely by early detection and prompt treatment. About 75,000 cancer deaths every year are needless sacrifices to ignorance, apathy and fear...
...enthusiasm for Harvard, remarked, "I just can't get the smile off my face. I try to close my mouth, but it breaks with a smile." Upon querying another summer student as to whether or not she was a regular member of the Harvard family, I received the prompt and concise reply, "No, I wish I were...
...punitive force sent to depose him bogged down in the mud, Tshekedi sent a team of oxen to haul it out); later (1950) for stormily objecting to the celebrated marriage of his nephew Seretse Khama to Ruth Williams, a blonde Englishwoman, when Britain feared that any provocation would prompt Daniel Malan's Union of South Africa to seize Bechuanaland. Sprung from London exile, Tshekedi returned (1956) to Bechuanaland, helped set up a voting council to replace the autocratic chief he had so long exemplified...