Word: hastened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue of who should administer a youth service program extends beyond private foundations and the U.S. government to the United Nations. If the "Peace Corps" idea met with favor, other countries, from both the Western alliance and the Soviet bloc, might hasten to join. As the recent General Assembly showed, the neutral nations have considerable respect for the U.N. and conversely, suspicions about either of the great power blocs. If the "Peace Corps" were a U.N. organ, three problems would be alleviated: (1) youth from all nations could join a single organization, (2) neutral countries would accept a U.N. delegation...
...even allowed to talk to De Gaulle, and his father angrily recalled him to Tunis. Last week, out of patience with De Gaulle and under pressure from the pro-Algerian sympathies of his people, President Bourguiba exploded. "Nothing will stop me from doing or accepting anything which may hasten the liberation of Algeria, even if this liberation is due to Russian initiative...
...When Archie, T.R.'s third son, was sick abed with the measles, younger Brother Quentin thought that seeing his pony would hasten Archie's recovery. The pony, Algonquin by name, was smuggled up to Archie's room by elevator. Algonquin behaved commendably; Archie got better...
...where there is reasonable hope of recovery or where some benefit of happiness is conferred on the patient." Out and out euthanasia, said Bishop Mortimer, is no longer "a live issue" in Britain, but doctors are certainly justified in relieving their old patients' suffering, even if this should hasten death...
...nuclear capability among other nations. One of the secrets confided to West Germany's Konrad Adenauer in Washington was the gist of a recent private message to Eisenhower from Khrushchev. There was even a hint in Washington that Khrushchev, too, like everybody else, would not like to hasten Red China's nuclear aptitude...