Word: hastening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth hypotensive, reserpine, may speed the appearance of peptic ulcers or worsen those already developed. It also commonly causes depression, often severe, and sometimes marked by delusions of persecution and suicidal impulses. And reserpine can hasten the death of patients with damaged hearts...
...position was an uneasy one. Its armed presence in Lebanon might even hasten what it sought to prevent. In all the Arab world east of Suez, not one ruler pledged to the West remained in power last week except by the presence of Western troops. Whatever existing boundaries might be, there was no blinking the fact: the most elemental force in the Middle East is the unifying passion of Al Umma al Arabia, and Nasser symbolizes...
...Till the conversion of the Jews" was Poet Andrew Marvell's way of indicating an immeasurably long period of time, and throughout history Christians have taken pains to hasten the day-from plain torture to the gentler persuasion of the American Board of Missions to the Jews. Such efforts are a grave mistake, writes Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the C.C.A.R. Journal, a quarterly of the Central Conference of American Rabbis...
...your Feb. 24 article "Philadelphia's New Problem": We have consistently insisted that in the city of Philadelphia Negroes shall have the right to buy homes and live wherever they desire. It is true that this has had a tendency to hasten the flight to the suburbs of younger white couples. It is, therefore, essential, if the suburban communities refuse to do so voluntarily, that there be a state anti-discrimination law. Builders of housing developments should also be compelled by federal regulations to abolish discrimination and segregation in any development built with the aid of federal funds...
...first to hail the new federation was the very man whose appeal it was formed to oppose. Egypt's Nasser fired off a congratulatory message to Feisal expressing the hope that the union of Iraq and Jordan would hasten the day of "great unity" -at the same time that his propagandists were denouncing the whole thing as "a new farce" engineered by "the same traditional feudal opportunists who have nothing in common with Arab nationalism and Arab aspiration...