Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been tortured and killed by the Japs in Manila, and assumed he would meet the same fate. He also thought that he and TIME'S Melville Jacoby, who was later killed in Australia, might be able to persuade Washington that the Philippines could be saved with some prompt assistance...
...Freda Kirchwey of The Nation last week felt what a paratrooper feels when his chute opens. Her request for emergency contributions, sent out several weeks ago to The Nation's friends and subscribers (TIME, March 1), clicked. Reported Editor Kirchwey: "The response . . . has been so generous and so prompt that I feel certain . . . The Nation's immediate future is secure...
Candidates were particularly reminded to remember to bring the two soft pencils mentioned on the admission forms. And again Perkins emphasized that prompt appearance at 9 o'clock is mandatory. "No one can be admitted one minute after...
Last week the Spartan old soldier stayed up beyond his usual prompt bedtime: 10 p.m. Not until the clocks in his colonnaded, white-walled Moorish home in Algiers pointed to 11:30 did General Henri Honore Giraud, High Commissioner of North Africa, lay down his pen. He had carefully studied a memorandum from the Fighting French. Just as carefully the General had studied out his answer. There were some points on which he and General Charles de Gaulle of the Fighting French were in agreement. On others-well, wise men move slowly...
Newest U.S. air slang in Britain, where it is always received with enthusiasm and prompt use, is "sweating out." This usually means stewing in one's own juice, as "sweating out" a reprimand from a commanding officer. But it also has less serious meanings. Airmen in England sweat out a chow line (i.e., wait for food) or a routine assignment like a training flight...