Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outset of his presidential campaign, Barry Goldwater figured that the best way to handle the farm issue would be to ignore it. After all, he had already set down his views in Conscience of a Conservative, where he advocated "prompt and final termination of the farm subsidy program." Barry thought he would just stand or fall with that. As it turned out, he is falling...
Last week two toddlers in Charleston, S.C., owed their prompt recoveries and probably their lives to the fact that young doctors remembered having read during the past year of a new and highly effective, but still experimental, treatment for iron poisoning. Lieut. Commander Lawrence G. Thorne, 31, was on duty at Charleston's U.S. Naval Hospital when two-year-old Michael V. Tate, son of a radarman, was brought in critically ill after swallowing from 30 to 60 of his mother's iron pills. Dr. Thorne quickly ordered blood transfusions and put the child on EDTA, a chemical...
Fact's poll invoked a prompt protest from the American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association as a vicious example of "yellow journalism." But the A.P.A. did not totally absolve its members either. Those who responded, said the A.P.A. in effect, were practicing personal politics and not medicine. Which scarcely explained how and why so many psychiatrists confused the analytical couch with the political stump...
...triumphantly over the largest crowd ever assembled in Portland, Maine, as it roared its welcome. After a few minutes listening to the pandemonium, he looked down quizzically and shouted, "Now do you want me to listen to you or do you want to listen to me?" The answer was prompt and obvious, and the enraptured audience swallowed his every word...
...concerns of the critics thus range from the basic nature of the college to the daily motives of the professors. As an aside, some critics castigate the motives that prompt some seniors to enter graduate school: for them graduate school is a device to postpone the dread day when a man must earn his living; it is also a means to evade the draft that requires less commitment than either marriage or expatriation...