Word: hasten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hasten to add that financial management both centrally and throughout the University was not perfect in 1972-73 is certainly subject to criticism this year and will be quite assailable next year. It warrants constant scrutiny and informed criticism at all times, and your interest and concern are not only healthy but welcome. But your purposes and those of your readers will be better served when first impressions are checked against available facts before hasty conclusions are drawn and recorded...
...month study of the plant's operation on his own initiative. He concluded in a 1967 report that the tailings were not, as the company contended, falling harmlessly to the lake bottom. Instead, he said, they were partially dissolving and releasing into the water nutrients that hasten the growth of algae...
Like the country, Perón, too, is ailing. Concerned about the condition of his heart, doctors have warned him that the rebirth of his political career could hasten his death. Just as ominous, though, is the problem that Peron faces within his own political movement, which is sharply split between the right and the left. The rightists, reports TIME Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Charles Eisendrath, seem as loyal as ever, willing to follow el Líder virtually wherever he takes them. But the leftists, who include many youths barely born when Perón was ousted...
...crash, he was placed under guard in the back of an open truck. Later, he was executed by an officer who fired a .45-cal. bullet into his temple. The government rounded up eleven other plotters and also shot them. Ironically, the coup's failure could hasten the kind of Laotian peace that it sought to prevent. Souvanna has emerged with his position strengthened by the firm support of the U.S. and the army...
Although it is excellent to have a giant's strength, it is tyrannous to use it like a giant, and a giant acting for himself can't use it any other way. By deepening our understanding of this truism, Sampson's book may hasten--in however slight a degree--the day when the people of the world assume the power their capital has built...