Word: straightway
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...When he met Banker Straight and his wife on an ocean crossing, the shy, religiously intellectual Croly had a challenging book on political philosophy to his credit (The Promise of American Life), and a burning desire to run a liberal magazine. Impressed by his zeal, the Straights straightway became his converts and backers. His object: "Less to inform or entertain [my] readers than to start little insurrections in the realm of their convictions...
Renie, mononymic Hollywood fashion designer, peered into the future, spied something eye-bugging: "transparent covering over the bosom for cocktail and evening clothes-and complete exposure in some instances." To the surprise of few, the Hollywood-Broadway axis straightway began to bare its collective breast...
...some-like those at SHAEF-are especially unloved. Said the New York Times's crack Drew Middleton: "The worst [censorship] I have experienced in five years." The OWI's brash George H. Lyon (former Buffalo Times editor) risked a reprimand by calling SHAEF policy "stupid," and was straightway backed up by his boss, Elmer Davis...
Twenty minutes later the party encountered the revolutionary Colonel Diógenes Gil in a car with a civilian chauffeur. Colonel Gil straightway sought the President's ear. The situation, he said, was serious. To avoid bloodshed, he suggested, the President should make him Minister of War. The President was outraged...
...grey-green, greasy Limpopo River," the rain-goddess showed the prospector a great stone. She rolled away the stone, and entered the cave of Lobengula. With the rain-goddess and the prospector was a Matabele named Ginyilitshe. The desecration of the cave filled Ginyilitshe with fear, and he ran straightway to Bulawayo, to a white man trusted by the Matabele: Arthur Huxtable, District Commissioner for Native Affairs...