Word: hastened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ironically, L.B.J.'s withdrawal will hasten the peace he has so earnestly sought-the peace that his antagonists abroad have hitherto denied him and his detractors at home doubted he truly sought. Ironically, too, this greatest sacrifice by an American President was made by the President considered most consummately political...
...passes for "counseling" of adolescents ends up short-curcuiting adolescence by undercutting the questioning, rebellion, and search that should accompany adolescent experience. As more adequate "special help" becomes available for American youth, that help must seek to intensify, deepen, and in many cases, prolong adolescence, rather than simply to hasten the passage to adulthood...
...only 2,300 miles with 292 passengers, instead of the 4,600 miles that Boeing is contractually obliged to deliver. Allowing Boeing more time to revamp the plane to meet its performance pledge, said Major General Jewell C. Maxwell, SST Development Director of the Federal Aviation Administration, "will hasten the day when we will have a safe, successful and profitable SST in commercial service...
After citing these energetic in-the-family examples of the exercise era, we hasten to add that some-well, many-of our staff are quite remote from this enthusiastic level. A number are in a category with Essay Reporter George Taber, a sometime exerciser whose weekend effort now consists of lifting the Sunday New York Times. Others are on a par with (but few as lucky as) the Bonn bureau's lean Burton Pines, who says, "Eating hard-frozen chocolate ice cream is all the exercise I get-and that's all I need." At any rate...
...feel they have a special calling to redeem society." Harvard students do not often hear from their President, and their reaction to this diatribe may have convinced him to resume hibernation. Harvard's era of dissaffection is far from spent, and Pusey's remarks will do little to hasten its demise...