Word: hastening
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...blind animal warmth. "How nice that we don't understand each other," she babbles, unburdening herself to the sullen waiter (Birger Malmsten) she has invited into bed, dumbly grateful that all they have in common is the language of desire. Then, "I wish Ester were dead." To hasten the process, she lets Ester come in and watch...
...largest group of girls, however, falls somewhere in between. They rush feverishly from activity to project, checking off the items on the neat lists they have posted in their rooms. If you ask them about Interim they hasten to tell you just what they are doing and what a good program it is. And yet they are dying for more direction. When it become known that the faculty opposed Interim, one girl wrote to the newspaper appealing to the faculty to "please define a successful Interim." Another girl, busy but unhappy, bemoaned the school's ban on organized activities, like...
...failing common to both species is extreme male fickleness. As soon as actual mating begins, the female turns off her light lure. But if another female is in the vicinity with her light still glowing, the busy male is as likely as not to disengage and hasten to the shining new partner...
Trying to hasten action by the Senate Finance Committee on tax-cut legislation, Johnson summoned Republican Floor Leader Everett Dirksen, a key member of the committee, to the White House for a poached egg breakfast. "Why don't you go on back up there and get that Finance Committee moving?" demanded the President. "Let's get a ten-minute limit on speeches and debate put on that committee." Replied Dirksen to the man who first achieved national fame as a skilled Senate lead er: "Lyndon, you know that place well enough to know...
...better work out that way -for, as the Kennedy Administration knows so well, failure of the U.S.-encouraged generals' junta to hasten the pace of the Vietnamese war might have explosive domestic political implications in 1964. Certain to be heard from for quite a while is Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu-who looks as though she might stay on in the U.S. for as long as possible...