Word: hastening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Admitting that the proctor had several year's experience as police chief in a neighboring town, officials hasten to point out that he is ununiformed. But when asked about the "campus proctor," many Colgate men answer. "Oh, you mean...
...meet payments on their debts. A worse danger is that in time of declining incomes, consumers will be forced to allot so much money to paying off their debts that they will have little left over for other buying. That would dry up purchases and shut down factories and hasten a recession...
...Indo-China: "To hasten the end of the war by all means at our disposal," but not "a retreat that would be incompatible with . . . our dead...
...meshing French steel with German coal supplies, the Flick-De Wendel deal seems, at first blush, to hasten the pooling of Western Europe's heavy industry, which is the object of the Schuman Plan. Already, however, there are fears that it may create an international version of the old Flick cartel that the Allies had undone and Schuman Plan authority has promised not to reestablish...
...mistake the particular interest for the general interest-to suppose, in the immortal thought recently uttered before a committee of Congress, that what is good for General Motors is good for the country . . . While the New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers, I hasten to say that I, for one, do not believe the story that the general welfare has become a subsidiary of General Motors...