Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gubser proposals would remove the unnecessary restrictions on acceptable men. The first calls for a prompt review by the Consular officer of any temporary visa for a technological, teaching, or scientific purpose. This is aimed at doing away with the present damaging delays...
...foreign government on behalf of a private U.S. firm since the Mexican oil expropriation of 1938. Following the principle established then by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, the U.S. insisted that, though sovereign governments have the right to expropriate property, the compensation paid must be "adequate, effective and prompt." As in the Mexican case, the U.S. might accept some smaller compromise sum as "adequate." But now, as then, it had served notice that it was acting for U.S. citizens and that the matter had become one for the two governments to handle, with some kind of negotiation or arbitration...
...above it. High points were the finding of five matting-wrapped mummies, bone-dry and well preserved. They had been buried in a doubled-up position, like babies in the womb. The ancient Huastecas believed in an afterlife, and they thought that this style of burial favored a prompt rebirth...
...reaction was prompt-and hardly what Rooy and Peereboom expected. Wired the Foreign Press Association: "Freedom of the press is seriously threatened." When Rooy was asked if it was not the duty of a newspaper to check everything it published, he replied that the papers have a special duty with respect to the Queen. He warned that foreign newsmen who ignored the agreement should not expect cooperation from the Dutch press. The issue, said Rooy, is one of "civilization," not censorship. The association then passed a resolution condemning the agreement, and mailed it to editors and top government officials...
...your magazine are entirely uncorroborated. For instance: "At Manhattan's Haaren High . . . five fires were set in a single classroom in a recent week. Only two were reported by the teacher for fear his disciplinarian slip might be showing." . . . There were two fires, both set by one pupil. Prompt action was taken. The pupil was caught, he appeared in court and was placed on probation. Within the memory of the principal, no comparable incident has ever occurred at that school . . . "A teacher recently stopped a fight between two students. Later that day, he found his new car scratched...