Word: hastening
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Phillip Whitten, a second-year student at the Graduate School of Education and chairman of BROTHER (Biafran Rescue Organization to Hasten Emergency Relief), said that the group has also raised about $4000 from personal contributions by Harvard professors and students, and from collection boxes in Harvard Square...
...that the President earnestly hopes to finish his term with a flourish that would include both a Viet Nam settlement and a broad rapprochement with the Soviet Union, topped off with a visit to Moscow. Honolulu did nothing to further the first wish. Developments in Czechoslovakia did nothing to hasten the other...
...hasten to add that my cameraderie, my sense of belonging, is with the aspirations of the students who level these charges. I'm certainly not opposed to the kind of social analysis they have made. But I am against a kind of short-circuited thinking that says because we know that the police are trying to enforce a certain kind of status quo, the solution is to get rid of the police--where? --in Roxbury, where the police, God knows, are needed all the time by the very poor people the students and I presumably want to help...
...Ironically, L.B.J.'s withdrawal will hasten the peace he has so earnestly sought-the peace that his antagonists abroad have hitherto denied him and his detractors at home doubted he truly sought. Ironically, too, this greatest sacrifice by an American President was made by the President considered most consummately political...
...passes for "counseling" of adolescents ends up short-curcuiting adolescence by undercutting the questioning, rebellion, and search that should accompany adolescent experience. As more adequate "special help" becomes available for American youth, that help must seek to intensify, deepen, and in many cases, prolong adolescence, rather than simply to hasten the passage to adulthood...