Word: hastening
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Like them we will give all our strength, and if need be our very life, to rally our people for the struggle for freedom, and to hasten the overthrow of Hitler...
...Therefore any mood of overconfidence should be severely repressed. . . . All large and amphibious operations, especially if they require the cooperation of two or more countries, require long months of organization, with refinements and complexities hitherto unknown. In war all impulses, impatient desires and sudden flashes of military instinct cannot hasten the course of events...
Although entrance complications exist Maritime officials in Boston hasten to point out that all men entering the merchant marine can be pretty sure of being sent off to school within a month or a month and a half of the date of their physical exam, whereas many undergraduates who enrolled in the air corps or a similar service with an eye to immediate action, have cooled their heels at Harvard for far longer intervals...
...these boys come back . . . and plague you for having failed in your obligation on the home front to give them more and more of everything that is needed to hasten a final victory...
...visitor to the food system next makes an inspection of the great kitchens and storerooms located under Kirkland House. At first there seems to be no system at all here; one is lost in a maze of tunnels and interlocking rooms while a bustling stream of white-uniformed workers hasten through the passageways...