Word: hastened
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...condolence came filtering in from the outside world. They were not just words of condolence, however. They were mixed with admonition. From Turtle Bay to Downing Street, the general tenor was, We are all terribly sorry, but you Israelis must continue peace talks. Indeed, the more quickly you hasten back to the negotiating table the better...
Many writers will hasten to recount their favorite moments in these final, parting words. Most will labor over dramatic championship moments, others will dramatize the rags-to-riches story. I will leave you with only one--a regular season hockey game, a 2-1 win for the Crimson...
...harvesting of her organs. This was followed by an interview with an ethicist concerned that protocols proposed at the Cleveland Clinic would allow organ-preserving drugs to be given to patients expected to suffer cardiac death after life support is withdrawn. The ethicist feared that these drugs could actually hasten death...
...major U.S. hurdle last week when Sen. Jesse Helms, chairman of the Senate Foreign relations committee and a bitter foe of the Castro regime, signed off on the idea in a letter to President Clinton. According to the letter, Helms believes that a CNN bureau in Cuba will hasten Fidel Castro's demise...
...same peculiar ways. "They put their faces very close to the child," she reports. "They use shorter utterances, and they speak in an unusually melodious fashion." The heart rate of infants increases while listening to Parentese, even Parentese delivered in a foreign language. Moreover, Fernald says, Parentese appears to hasten the process of connecting words to the objects they denote. Twelve-month-olds, directed to "look at the ball" in Parentese, direct their eyes to the correct picture more frequently than when the instruction is delivered in normal English...