Word: promptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they crossed party lines. Democratic states' righters from the South were dead set against expanding coverage to firms operating in just one state. They joined Republicans and some Northern Democrats in believing that the bill would work some hardships on farmers, retailers, small businessmen-and would in fact prompt employers to cut down the work force, thus increasing unemployment at the unskilled level, where it hurts most. Argued Kennedy, in a pointed plea at his press conference: "I find it difficult to understand how anybody could object to paying somebody who works in a business which makes over...
...public, Ferhat Abbas and the F.L.N. have demanded immediate withdrawal of the French army from Algeria, prompt independence, and unquestioned control by the rebels. Privately, they spoke with more realism and greater moderation last week, frankly admitting that some sort of transition period must come before freedom. How would the F.L.N. deal with the 1,000,000 Europeans islanded among Algeria's 10 million Moslems? "We would like to integrate them into the state," insists an F.L.N. spokesman. "After all, they are more Algerian than French...
Loud Whisper. The Cabinet decision brought a prompt announcement that Ben-Gurion would take a four-week holiday from his job. The Prime Minister's aides whispered loudly enough for everyone to hear that the vacation would be followed by Ben-Gurion's resignation if the Cabinet did not reverse itself. Mapai Party leaders went into a desperate huddle and promised to think of something that would pacify their chief...
...holy table as in an apostolic age," clergy and even the bishop sit among the people, and laymen rise from their pews in the congregation to read the Old Testament lesson and the Epistle. Even the unvested choir is no longer segregated, but sits with the congregation to prompt them...
This scene was symbolic of Kennedy's whole tour from Bethlehem--where started the day in the living room of an unemployed steelworker--to Scranton, where he pledged prompt Federal aid to prevent "young people moving out of these families being broken up, and whole communities withering away...