promptitude
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Also, the House shoved along to the Senate with dutiful promptitude, appropriation bills to run the Government until July 1, 1929.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Bolshevik agents were said to be learning British troop movements with amazing promptitude.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Yet, there was something depraved about the easy hang of his well-made, collegiate clothes; something free-and-easy, almost loose, about the clear voice in which he answered their questions with unabashed promptitude.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"Jay Cee here," Jay Cee rapped out with brutal promptitude.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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In response to a shout from him, Jasper Slyne went jauntily forward, and, with commendable promptitude, let himself down the falls overside.
From The White Blackbird by Hudson Douglas