Word: hastener
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Clearly, Peggy and Guy Smith's example will not hasten that day by any appreciable degree. It is unlikely that they care. Nonetheless, their marriage will doubtless be long remembered as a benchmark in the troubled history of race relations...
Particularly since the 1962 Cuban missile debacle, which helped hasten the fall of Nikita Khrushchev, Moscow has played for smaller stakes at great cost and scant return (see box). One investment it could not liquidate, however, was the Middle East. With the decline of Western influence and the rise of Arab nationalism in the 1950s, the volatile, petroliferous Moslem world became an irresistible and comparatively safe target for Russia's rulers. Their main goal, in the Middle East as elsewhere, was to displace U.S. influence. The ultimate cost of Russia's aid to the Arab world was between $3 billion...
...granted that the news leak was an effort to pressure the Pope into siding with the majority-and soon. But the pressure seems to have had no noticeable effect; Paul has still to announce his long-awaited decision. Last week, in what was viewed as another evident attempt to hasten a liberal papal ruling, the National Catholic Reporter, an independent weekly published in Kansas City, printed the hitherto secret text of the commission's report...
Glass, however, reminded them that the temperature had fluctuated between 86 and 92 degrees during the week that Dorothy was missing, and that humidity had remained extremely high. These conditions, he said, would hasten the deterioration of the body, yet the body was very well preserved when the police finally discovered it. He pointed out that the replica showed the package of hamburger which Dorothy had purchased the previous Monday was covered with maggots...
...foreign-trade level, he hopes that competition in the realistic world of market prices will force specialization on Czech industry. "At present," he explains, "we produce 78% of the total world spectrum of types of machinery. This is impossible for a small country. Thus we hope our measures will hasten specialization." Already some 1,300 "redundant" Czech factories have been closed, and another 1,400 of them may shut down before the reform wave crests...