Word: hastening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the public expects its poets to be "boisterous, dissolute, sometimes repellent." If it is the literate public you have in mind, I hasten to inform you that it expects nothing of the kind. On the contrary, it demands that a poet be a gentleman, in the most significant sense of the word. Lice and low company, added to booze and borrowed breeches, are the marks of the charlatan, not the true poet...
Across the country, the needlework that the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis had sought to hasten for 8,500,000 first-and second-graders was being stilled. More and more parents were withdrawing permission. Virtually all the vaccine that had been approved and re-approved was used up. Dr. Scheele was confident that some vaccine, already finished, could be released by the middle of this week, and that the flow would increase rapidly. But all sights had been lowered: the best he could hope for was completion of the foundation's priority program by Aug. 15. All manufacturers...
...decision and its timing is his own problem, one full of conflicting elements that no observer can assess. But viewed objectively, there is no political reason why Ike should hasten to make up his mind. The longer his P.M.I., the tougher he can make it for the men who have made it tough...
...discovered several types of chemicals that will hasten reactions in experiments. He has also demonstrated that a simple device can be successfully substituted for more expensive equipment. For example, a clothespin can be substituted for a $28 monometer, it can be used as an ordinary clamp, and can also take the place of a pressure gauge. By replacing ethyl alcohol with a less expensive chemical that has a higher boiling point, Fieser has found a way to reduce one reaction from 24 hours to five minutes...
Looking at the Kremlin's "extraordinary demonstration of despotic disarray" last week. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles observed: "It may well be that the last act of this drama has not yet been played." Dulles had some suggestions that might hasten the final curtain...