Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Used in low doses and for no more than about two weeks, proclorperazine is reported to give prompt tranquility to 86% of patients suffering from anxiety, agitation, agitated depression, tension, confusion, restlessness, senile agitation and alcoholic delirium. It lets patients sleep well at night and (unlike chlorpromazine) does not make them drowsy during...
...that morning, Eden was up, faultlessly dressed, soundly breakfasted. All morning he met with his Cabinet. There was no dispute about how to ans'wer the Russian note. Cabinet members were cheered by the U.S.'s prompt reply that it would oppose Russian intervention and agreed that Bulganin should be told to mind his own business. But the members disputed long over the ceasefire. Butler reiterated his argument that further gains by British arms would not compensate for U.S. and world disapproval. One worry was that protracted fighting might provide the Russians with a pretext to send volunteers...
...moved to keep faith with the gallant rebels by offering economic aid "very fast" if requested, by placing before the U.N. Security Council "the situation in Hungary." In-extraordinary Sunday session the Council voted 9-1 (Russia) with Yugoslavia abstaining, to put the complaint on the agenda for prompt debate...
...most part, Nixon cut his own pattern of what he would say and do, but he kept in close touch with the White House and Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington. Only twice did Washington's Republican strategists prompt him on major matters: once to suggest that he get a little rougher with Adlai Stevenson, once to urge him to drop his valid point that free-enterprise technological advances will one day lead to a four-day work week in the U.S. It was a tough point to get across, and some Administration and G.O.P. brasshats thought it sounded...
Arthritis of Rheumatic Fever. Now readily dealt with, in most cases, by prompt treatment of the rheumatic fever with aspirin and hormones of the cortisone family, and the use of penicillin to prevent recurrences. For all practical purposes: under control...