Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreement, which could be altered a year hence if any of its partners has second thoughts, represents a sound and simultaneous tripartite decision in a NATO split by Charles de Gaulle. Most important, it may prompt Moscow to transfer some of its 26 divisions in Eastern Europe to a more sensitive perimeter, Russia's 4,100-mile frontier with China...
Supernatural Fables. Two Tales is the one book among the three translations that should prompt U.S. readers to endorse the Nobel committee's judgment. Symbolic and supernatural fables, masterpieces of the form, they help to explain why Agnon has been compared to Kafka. In Betrothed, the heroine Susan suddenly appears before the hero, a young scientist on the threshold of a brilliant career, to remind him of the vows of fidelity they had sworn as children. Susan is the past: alluring, insistent; and the compulsion she represents is as enduring as mankind's yearning for its departed youth...
...body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall bury him the same day." In other words, even criminals were to be spared the possibility of mutilation by wild animals after their execution. Orthodox extremists interpret that injunction as meaning that any human must be given prompt burial before his body can come to harm, except when an autopsy can help save the life of a person in the immediate area...
Evans is now a professor at the University of Illinois, where he has taught for 20 years. He has edited "Shakespeare Prompt-books of the Seventeenth Century," "The Tragedy of Richard the Third" in The Pelican Shakespeare, and "The Plays and Poems of William Cartwright...
...thirds majority to exclude him from the 90th Congress, which lasts until the end of 1968. Certainly, Powell's recent antics have done nothing to increase his popularity among his former colleagues. Last week some 150 Congressmen signed a petition to the Justice Department requesting a prompt investigation of Powell's misuse of Government funds...