Then China promptly went Communist, and Mr. Truman had to fight the interminable Korean war for the democratization of Korea before we learned how far our writ did `` reach in Asia ''.

This might have been the reason why Almagro did not immediately confront Pizarro for Cuzco, and promptly decided to embark on his new quest for the discovery of the riches of Chile.

In 1791 George Rapp said, " I am a prophet, and I am called to be one " in front of the civil affairs official in Maulbronn, Germany, who promptly had him imprisoned for two days and threatened with exile if he did not cease preaching.

" Kenyon ... did not capitilize fully on ( the ) implication of her stratigraphic techniques by producing final publications promptly.

But Epimetheus did not listen ; he accepted Pandora, who promptly scattered the contents of her jar.

Conan Doyle promptly submitted The Sign of the Four to Stoddart, but Wilde was more dilatory ; Conan Doyle's novel was published in the February 1890 edition of Lippincott's, but Stoddart did not receive Wilde's typescript for The Picture of Dorian Gray until 7 April 1890.

Undercutting the competition, for he had no need to make a profit ( having effectively limitless funds from NCR ), he gradually monopolized the business ; until he was able to buy out the competitors, which he promptly did.

* George Murray, who was once sent to Central America and told to " find a lost city ", which he promptly did.

But Epimetheus did not listen ; he accepted Pandora, who promptly scattered the contents of her jar.

At night, they followed people and protected them from animals and bandits as long as they did not look over their shoulder to ensure that an Adroanzi was following ; if the person did so, the Adroanzi promptly killed him or her.

Overall, Archduke Charles was well aware that he did not possess the means necessary to lead any offensive actions, so he promptly dismissed suggestions to run any major operations against the French base on Lobau island.

Pereda, in turn, was overthrown in November 1978 by democratically-oriented officers under General David Padilla who, embarrassed by the events of the last few months ( and suspecting that Pereda did not intend to call new elections either ), promptly set a firm date for a new vote.

A few managed to comply promptly but others did not, including Alastair Maclain, 12th Chief of Glencoe, who waited until the last day before setting out to take the oath.

Although Galileo promptly invited Torricelli to visit, he did not accept until just three months before Galileo's death.

In the meantime, a May agreement saw most miners return to work at increased rates of pay ; coal supply promptly increased, as did its price.

Raed did not respond promptly to e-mails, so Salam set up the weblog for him to read.

The citizens promptly did so to the last man, and Philip entered an empty city.

The battle is a landmark of misplaced loyalty: the Ban of Croatia, Josip Jelačić, who led the Croatian army, was sent to deal with the rebellious Hungarians, which he promptly did, despite the fact that, had he sided with them, and against the Emperor, Croatia very well could have won its independence from the Habsburg monarchy within a new Hungarian state.

The film did not fare well and received a poor critical response, with ticket sales for the opening weekend totalling more than US $ 15. 3 million, but promptly dropping to $ 4. 2 million in its second weekend.

The article also belied many impressions the film gave of Van Doren: it portrayed him as a bachelor when he was actually engaged ; it suggested he had a fascination with the burgeoning, popular television quiz shows when in fact he did not even own a television set ; that the only reason he became even mildly acquainted with Twenty-One was because co-producer Al Freedman shared a mutual acquaintance with one of Van Doren's friends ; and, that he had been offered his job with The Today Show promptly after losing to Vivien Nearing when, in fact, NBC was not sure at first what to do with him, until he did work for Dave Garroway's Sunday afternoon cultural show, Wide Wide World, which then led to the invitation to join Today.

A returning Eric Bischoff came to the ring and began ordering the timekeeper to ring the bell, which he eventually did, awarding the match and the presidency to Sting ( who promptly gave it up upon receiving it ).

Phocion refused, but did request the release of some men enslaved at Sardis, who were promptly liberated.

Koroma invited the leadership of the Revolutionary United Front ( RUF ) to join the AFRC, which they promptly did.

Upon the expiration of a period deemed adequate for demonstration purposes for each plant, but not to exceed such twelve-year period, the Secretary shall proceed as promptly as practicable to dispose of any plants so constructed by sale to the highest bidder, or as may otherwise be directed by Act of Congress.

He sucked in his breath and kept quiet while Killpath laid down the sheet again, wound the gold-wire stems of his glasses around his ears and then, eying the report as it lay before him on the desk, intoned, `` Acting Lieutenant Gunnar Matson one failed to see that the station keeper was properly relieved two absented himself throughout the entire watch without checking on the station's activities or the whereabouts of his section sergeants three permitted members of the Homicide Detail of the Inspector's Bureau to arrogate for their own convenience a patrolman who was thereby prevented from carrying on his proper assignment four failed to notify the station commander Acting Captain O. T. Killpath of a homicide occurring in the district five frequented extralegal establishments known as after-hours spots for purposes of an unofficial and purportedly social nature and six '' -- he leaned back and peeled off his glasses `` -- failed to co-operate with the Acting Captain by returning promptly when so ordered.

However, about once a week some character spots the fact that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes that Stanley and I were taking a crack at the estimable institution ... As it happened, IBM had given us a good deal of help, so we were quite embarrassed by this, and would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence.

The premise of the sketch is that the joke is so funny that anyone who reads or hears it promptly dies from laughter.

Regazzoni spoke favourably of Lauda, so Ferrari promptly went and signed him, paying Niki enough to clear his debts.

The Angevin property having been partly his own lands whose control was lost in the aftermath of the Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ), King John of England would not allow a French subject to take ownership of such an estate in England, a policy maintained by the following Regency, so the lands were split between the boys, Simon's elder brother Amaury taking the French holding ( which he promptly lost, not having his father's military accumen ) and Simon taking the English, when King Henry eventually changed the policy on his accession to power on arriving at an age of majority in 1227: both he and Simon were virtually contemporary and both had seen their lands abused by their elders during their minority.

The Austrian commander thought that the battle scenario he had prepared for-a repetition of the battle fought at the end of May-was about to materialise, so he promptly moved his entire force to face the enemy.

Norma gives him their word, then promptly plans to marry Michael in 6 months, when he's made ' good in the hills ' so he can buy her a home in the valley.

After the elections, the governor promptly appointed Brown to the council, presumably to maintain the influence of what had for so long been the colony's chief business.

Pelagianism quickly spread, especially around Carthage, which is one reason the opponents acted so promptly and firmly.

At the defence of Mainz ( July 1793 ) he so distinguished himself that though disgraced along with the rest of the garrison and imprisoned, he promptly won reinstatement, and became in August 1793 a general of brigade.

The band were turned over to RCA, which began neglecting the group, and so they promptly fired their management team and the resulting injunction meant that their equipment was reclaimed and they could not be paid for their concert performances.

The most notable example was when Helga demanded that Hägar speak the truth at least one time, Hägar agrees and does so, something that pleasantly surprises even God himself, who promptly makes angels playing the trumpets in celebration of this " miracle ".

For example, Hilary Spurling wrote in 1970, " Valentine is so overcome Proteus ' apology that he promptly offers to hand over his beloved to the man who, not three minutes before, had meant to rape her.

In both these methods a primary advantage of the material is that it is resistant to a fire within a room and so can assist in reducing or eliminating structural damage or destruction provided the fire is promptly extinguished.

Another character, Alec DeLeon, was supposed to perish in the destruction of Mars but the Universal executives strongly opposed it, so he was killed several episodes later, on the Moon, only to be promptly resurrected in a Neo Mega body.

When Landeros and Devine presented their idea for the game, they were promptly " fired " so that they could start their own company, Trilobyte, dedicated solely to the development of this game.

Eleanor's death caused Ivy to loathe Johannesburg, so Edgar promptly sold their house and put them aboard a liner for England, while keeping Ivy completely unaware of their financial situation.

He promptly did so, and while recovering there, occasionally wrote for the Herald of the Wells County.

Delenn, promptly, orders the Whitestar acoustics to create the sound of rain so that Sheridan can relax and sleep prior to their arrival on Ganymede.

" In this episode, after being asked ( and begged and pleaded ) by Dr. Scratchansniff to keep their lunacy under control for one evening during an important studio banquet, the three siblings did so and were very well behaved ... until they were promptly asked to leave the banquet hall before they caused any trouble.