Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party-hack Democrat with blind loyalty to party machinery, just like Harry Truman. It is fascinating to contemplate, isn't it, how different our situation might be if Truman's haberdashery shop in Kansas City hadn't folded, and if the Massachusetts legislature had been more prompt in passing the law requiring two years of high school for those admitted...
...cholera fighters from Formosa, but failed to use vigorously the weapon that the Navymen recommended: salt water. Cholera victims are weakened and killed by a catastrophic loss of body fluids through vomiting and diarrhea (as many as 15 quarts in a day); they can nearly always be saved by prompt, aggressive treatment, in which saline solution is given intravenously, sometimes with sodium bicarbonate. The Manila government did not get enough of the solutions or the equipment to administer them...
Plenty of Oomph. Northrop had little trouble selling VIPS to the Air Force. On a test flight in Texas, the system worked perfectly; its calm voice gave prompt warning of many simulated hazards. Then the pilot, Major H. T. Deutschendorf, started his landing approach. Gina spoke once more, warning that his airplane's alternator was out and that fuel pressure was low on the port side. The major had had enough tests for the day. "Shut the damned thing off," he shouted to his crew. A crew member replied that no more hazards had been simulated. Suddenly the major...
Toward a Summit. At midweek, sensing the imminent U.N. offensive, Tshombe put out peace feelers. To President Kennedy went a direct personal plea that "as a free man and as a Christian," he name a conciliator and stop the fighting. Kennedy wired back his prompt agreement and nominated his ambassador in Leopoldville, Edmund Asbury Gullion, to take on the task. But the U.N. pressure would not be relaxed unless Tshombe produced hard evidence of sincerity-in other words, until he left Elisabethville and met with Adoula...
...part of his article describing the nature and effects of an attack on a heavily-populated area. These are, to be sure, harrowing pages to read; but since he has already said that "no responsible official or consultant suggests that anyone can be protected against what are called the 'prompt' effects of nuclear weapons: the initial radation, heat and blast," it is not clear what the relevance of this part of his discussion is to the question of nuclear defence...