Word: hastens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East Pakistan border, 50,000 Pakistani Hindus are crammed into makeshift tents and huts. There are only six doctors for the entire camp, and in the suffocating heat (110° in the shade) children die like flies. East Pakistan has erected dozens of its own refugee camps. To hasten integration of the newcomers, some local officials have ordered villages to absorb a fixed quota of the refugees, who come in relentless hundreds each...
...Ceylon's Prime Minister saved her serious words for Chou himself. As a self-designated peacemaker, she thought she only had to say a few properly persuasive words to Chou and China would hasten to patch up its quarrel with India. Blithely, the Ceylonese press reported that Mrs. Bandaranaike had persuaded Chou to fly right to India for peace talks. But Chou was inscrutable, and India downright hostile to the idea. Mrs. Bandaranaike was only momentarily deterred. "As for the dispute between Peking and Moscow," she said, "I am afraid it is beyond...
...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...