Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...support was prompt and as officers of the Quincy gathered at the Jockey Club for a luncheon given in their honor by Foreign Minister Dr. Alberto Guani, American Minister to Uruguay Edwin...
Instructors and students alike are unanimous in their desire for prompt action. The only satisfactory solution is a full course with laboratory work to orient bio-chemistry students and bridge the gap between their biology and chemistry courses. Upon the new committee's shoulders rests the responsibility of reversing a story of futility and making Fair Harvard a little more fair to a large group of her undergraduates...
After two abortive riots had been halted by the prompt action of the police and the Yard cops, the third, starting about midnight somewhere in the vicinity of Dunster House and spreading as it traveled north, gained enough momentum to carry it through the Square and to the Cambridge Common before a hurriedly-called squad of 60 blue-coats stemmed its tide...
...almost exactly duplicates Nazi propaganda urging the Allies to make immediate peace. Sensation of the Paris trial of 44 Communist ex-Deputies (TIME, April 8) was a declaration by the chief defendant, Communist Florimond Bonte. He said that he and his fellow prisoners "deserved well" of France for urging prompt peace with Germany on Adolf Hitler's terms...
...Scouting. Jumping to the defense of his company, Mr. Eisenhart pointed with pride to the Navy Department's satisfaction with B. & L., declared that the Department of Justice and the Navy Department were obviously working at cross purposes. Said he: "I can see no constructive motive which could prompt our Government in bringing this kind of action against the company...