Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finally, last week-end, the Democratic Advisory Council included in its 1960 policy statement a plank advocating prompt repeal of the NDEA disclaimer affidavit...
...turkey. When aminotriazole was introduced in 1957, the Agriculture Department and Flemming's Pure Foods and Drugs Administration failed to cooperate in their evaluation of the new chemical's safety. With the increasing use of such chemicals in the growth and preparation of foods, more thorough and prompt controls are essential in order to prevent such costly and inexcusable mistakes as the Cranberry Affair...
...Japan tend to be cheaper and better tailored to national tastes than most heavily taxed U.S. imports, some governments may even prefer to see real competition in some fields, e.g., textiles, rather than U.S. retaliation against their own dollar exports. Another effect of quota relaxations may be to prompt U.S. manufacturers to design goods specifically for European markets. Competition, said Antoine Pinay, is "the best of stimulants and the most effective of disciplines...
Whenever a member of a force . . . is prosecuted under the jurisdiction of a receiving State he shall be entitled to a prompt and speedy trial [and ] to be confronted with the witnesses against him. -NATO Status of Forces Agreement
While Author Hart guides his characters through their scenes, he also manages some fascinating asides. There is Hart's quick test of tryout success (when a play is doing well, room service is always prompt, but when it is in trouble, the waiters are always late and the sandwiches soggy); there is Hart's law for the aspiring director (the less sure he is of himself, the tougher he must be with the cast). Hart knows how to interpret all the sounds made by an audience: the implications of their coughs, the degrees of their laughter, the intensity...