Word: hastens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...likely that the court will rule against Nixon and that soon after his return from the Soviet Union in July he will face a no-win choice: surrender tapes that are widely assumed to be incriminating to him, or ignore an order of the highest court. Either move would hasten impeachment. Refusal to comply would leave him in direct defiance of both the Legislative and Judicial branches of Government. "He'd be impeached and impeached fast," said Illinois Republican Tom Railsback, a member of the Judiciary Committee. While Nixon once had promised to comply with any "definitive" Supreme Court...
...machinations hasten the entrance of Major Barbara. The comforting commander, made even more soothing by Ellen Anderman's empathetic performance, douses the raging Beckhard. But the arrival of the play's two strongest characters-Cousins, Barbara's boyfriend, and Undershaft, her father-threatens, and eventually undermines Anderson's moderating role...
...whistles have all blown for six O'clock, and now the city timepieces begin to strike, commencing with a deep boom and running up to a high treble till the air is filled with the clashing of iron tongues... Little groups of students coming from the side streets hasten across the yard, bound for Memorial Hall, and in spite of the general din, fragments of their gay talk come clearly to the passers...
...Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and he does his own shuttling to other Arab capitals. His international importance could be short-lived. But at this particular turn in the long torment of the Middle East, there is no question that Assad and Syria have the power to hasten a peace settlement significantly or send everybody back to stalemate...
Both fighters are now confronted with the slide into the twilight of their careers. Past 30 years old, the watershed of many a fighting career, neither can afford a further tarnishing of the record to hasten the skid from the top. And with an awesome new champ holding court today as king of the heavyweights, tonight's Ali-Frazier is a battle of the "once-weres" not the "here-and-nows...