Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreement to make sharp cutbacks within the next year in the 100,000 U.S. servicemen now stationed in Japan, including a "prompt withdrawal of all U.S. ground combat forces," i.e., about 30,000 men of the Army. The 1st Cavalry Division, biggest U.S. combat group in the home islands, will pull out this summer. Probable destination: Korea. As Japan's new, 200,000-man defense force grows, Washington plans to make further reductions in the remaining 70,000-man U.S. force-for the most part Air Force and Navy personnel...
...same, might have varying potency, or none. But something could be 'read between the lines of his report. One patient has had the beef-brain-extract injections for as long as 18 months, and another for eight months, so, while it may be relatively safe, it is no prompt cure...
Novelist C. P. Snow (The New Men) issued a prompt rejoinder as to why the kept canaries of the Welfare State warble such sour notes from their badly gilded cages: "Lucky Jim will not accumulate enough money to change his way of life. He is never going to starve, but he cannot have a dramatic rise in the world ... It is an unexpected result of the Welfare State that it should make the social pattern not less rigid but much more...
Tough-minded A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany was unimpressed. In his prompt retort to the Galveston resolutions, Meany made it clear that the united labor movement would go ahead and pass judgment on Beck & Co. whether they showed up to defend themselves or not. "The only accuser of Mr. Beck," said Meany, "will be Mr. Beck-his own testimony, his lack of testimony, and the record...
...against El Glaoui and his stooge Sultan, went on a major uprising in the Atlas Mountains. The last straw for the French came when El Glaoui himself drove into Rabat in his black Bentley and blandly declared: "I identify myself with the wish of the Moroccan nation for a prompt restoration of Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef...