Word: promptness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, Victor D. Oppenheimer, president of Mount Auburn, Inc., said that the organization will have to close permanently unless the Court gives a prompt decision on the licensing charges. The group is already "considerably in arrears" on rent and other bills, Oppenheimer admitted...
...responsibility" on graft. By that he means that "I expressly hold myself responsible, morally and politically to the people, for malfeasance by members of my Cabinet, for the acts of my family and my intimates, for the general state of morality of the government, and for failure to take prompt and vigorous action...
Rather, Riesman has sought, with almost infinite patience and tolerance, to make sense of the intellectual climate of America, and to replace indignation against conformity with an understanding that might prompt plausible activity. Yet if one listens to Riesman's readers, or his students, it seems that a kind of intellectual self-pity informs most of their reactions...
Lerner, who has just returned from seven years of studying problems of unity in Europe, said that only default on United States' undertaking in Berlin would be likely to prompt a major reevaluation in the immediate future. But as strategic weapons systems comparable to Minuteman and Polaris make nuclear deterrence cheaper, movement toward a defense organization will probably accelerate...
...jammed, stiffling hot third floor chamber, combined with the efforts of numerous hecklers, created an explosive atmosphere which seemed to prompt volatile speaker Vargas to extraordinary extremes of fervor...