Word: hastening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lest I be misunderstood, let me hasten to add that the point of this story is the importance of brainpower-not the place of the poolroom in a young man's success. Dean Wooldridge was the "Big Red" of the brain squad...
...tried to shape its policy to the complexities of each situation. With frequent glaring mistakes, often hastily rectified (e.g., the highhanded exile of Uganda's Cambridge-educated Kabaka, "King Freddie," three years ago), the Colonial Office has sought, against opposition from both blacks and local whites alike, to hasten native self-government in the all-black areas where it was possible, to promote racial equality in the multicolored zones where...
...free on $25,000 bail while appealing a tax-evasion conviction (five years), Costello, a charmed-life anachronism from the Prohibition Era, could see signs that he had outlived his right to be known as "prime minister of the U.S. underworld." The obvious way for upstart mobsters to hasten the crumbling of Kingpin Costello's dark empire of crime and rackets would begin with the elimination of the Big Boss himself. Costello taxied last week from a quiet on-the-town evening to his apartment house on Manhattan's Central Park West. In the building's vestibule...
...Georgia, which is now completing a fiveyear, $261 million building program, both Governor Marvin Griffin and Senator Herman Talmadge are against federal aid. State Superintendent of Schools M. D. Collins has endorsed it because he thinks it would hasten school construction. "Georgia," says he, "is certainly capable of financing its own school program, but it would have to be on a long-term basis, say 20 years. The question is whether Georgia wants to take on such an obligation...
...hasten to reply to your bulky communication concerning Dr. Oppenheimer's appointment to give the 1957 William James lectures at Harvard...