Word: hasten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controversy. Lord Alport, a Conservative peer who handled Commonwealth relations under Harold Macmillan, recently called Heath's apparent determination to go ahead with the arms sale not only "politically unwise" but also "militarily irrelevant." Worse, it could prove counterproductive. By antagonizing black African governments, Heath might actually hasten the expansion of Soviet influence-not only in the Indian Ocean but on the African land mass as well. But Heath seemed determined to have his way and lost few chances to argue his side of the controversy. The Bible lesson he read in St. Andrew's Cathedral from John...
...Moreover, 1 cannot and will not turn my back on lifelong Christian teachings and beliefs, merely to let history run out its course on a fallible and failing theory of punitive justice." He urged other Governors to follow his lead "so that as a people we may hasten the elimination of barbarism as a tool of American justice...
...evaded our generation; like other hoarded treasures of our culture, he was taken from us and reissued by the corporate entertainment industry. And, eager to catch whatever glimpse we could of the fallen idol, we paid for the transformation. As if time is not enough of a danger, we hasten the process of change, we ensure the disappearance of our actual past. Once again they ask us for our appreciation, our money, and, once again, I suppose we'll be only too happy to give it to them...
...Wales village I came fromPontrhydyfen. Elizabeth will still be superbly dressed, but the double chin she has had from childhood will become a third chin, and she'll be asking me to get her a vodka and tomato juice at 10:30at night, I hasten to add instead of 6:30 as at present." On money: "We both try to live up to the rules of easy wealth. Elizabeth treats it all as fairy money. She scatters it. I am pretty cute business-wise. Some time ago, I went into a deal with...
...last and by every means least, a raucous female impersonator named Holly (Holly Woodlawn). In the film's climactic scene, Holly stuffs a pillow under its sweater, feigning pregnancy to con an uptight, upright social worker out of welfare money. Those who can respect Trash will hasten Warhol & Co. to their ultimate alchemy, the recovery of gold from garbage. Stefan Kanfer