Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from rabies, but almost everyone has a chilling fear of the disease, and with good reason: once it takes hold, it invariably ends in a horrible sequence of delirium, paralysis and death. The only way to save a patient bitten by a rabid animal is to give him a prompt injection of vaccine which kills the disease before it is fully developed...
...plays Joe Palooka in the movies, was hauled off to court in Worcester, Mass. and adjudged the father of a pair of six-year-old ideal American twins belonging to a movie cashier named Florence Hep-penstall. "I scarcely knew the girl," said Joe, who nonetheless made a prompt cash settlement...
...book and blurring the type, with mosquitoes buzzing around his ears, and with sopping handkerchiefs tied around his neck and forehead, will not understand why Lamont Library, the College's only air-conditioned building, is closed. He will not be too impressed with the questions of finance that will prompt the administrators of the library in their meeting today. He will be hot, hot and bothered...
...Griswold commission said charges that Dr. Van Waters' administration had mishandled homosexuality in the reformatory were "wholly unproved." "In the very few instances where overt acts of homosexuality occurred ... prompt and effective steps were taken," the report stated...
...This Desire of Mine." Harry Truman said what he had said before: he would gladly talk to Stalin-in Washington. Reporter Smith got off a quick message to Moscow: Would Stalin accept the invitation? If not, would he meet the President somewhere else? Stalin's answer was prompt: "To visit Washington has long been my desire," he confided. "I regret that at present I am deprived of the possibility of carrying out this desire of mine, since doctors strongly object to my making any long journey, especially by air or sea." He suggested that Truman come to Russia, perhaps...