Word: promptings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Treatment involves intensive replacement of lost fluids and infusions of salts to restore the body's water and chemical balance. It is almost always effective. But without prompt medical attention, 50% of cholera's victims...
...interview under less pressure, that kind of evasion would normally elicit a prompt follow-up question. In large press conferences, however, immediate follow-up is the exception rather than the rule. When Nixon was unresponsive to a question about the Agnew case, the next reporter changed the subject to oil and the Middle East. A second Agnew question doubtless would have brought out another version of a "No comment...
...people who use Holyoke Center will thank you for your prompt attention to this very serious matter. R.H. Ives Goddard III Assistant Professor of Linguistics
...further divide our bleeding nation, and so forth. They are reluctant to profit from a national tragedy (i.e. 'tragedy' liberally defined). This is unusual. The Republican Party showed no such scruples during reconstruction; the Democrats were perfectly willing to profit from the Depression. Self-interest and idealism both prompt political parties to profit from whatever comes along. Why are the Watergate hearings different...
...visit from Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy in which they had complained that their "security activities" for the Nixon committee had not yet been approved by Mitchell. Colson said in the memo he did not know what the proposal was but nevertheless had called Jeb Stuart Magruder to urge prompt consideration of it. Dean, knowing the plan was the Watergate bugging, sent the memo back to Colson, urging its destruction. The prosecutors consider this more evidence that Dean was obstructing justice. Some Ervin committee investigators, however, consider it a Colson move to entrap Dean...