Word: hastens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...welcome and firmly support Teng's re-appointment to his former posts. During the night, however, the poster vanished, all traces of its message scraped off the wall. Some China watchers surmised that the poster had been an attempt by some of Teng's overzealous supporters to hasten his return to power. After all, they argued, posters that had appeared in Peking and Canton last spring announcing Teng's appointment as Premier had proved to be false alarms. The day after the disappearance of the first poster, however, several similar ones were sighted. Foreign residents heard...
...territorial compromise for peace. The question is: What will happen within the next year or two?" On the West Bank, Arabs are wondering the same thing. "We want a solution, either by peace or war," says Mayor Mohammed Mousa Ammer of tiny Dura, near Hebron. "Extremism will only hasten...
...will leave his interrogator totally befuddled and, most important, hide the identity of Firman's boss: Mat Williamson, a Fiji-born financial wizard who can be terminally mean when his interests are threatened. While Firman tries to bamboozle the professor and his two academic assistants, Williamson decides to hasten things by killing everyone involved...
...musical associates agree that she is still learning. In her Hasten Down the Wind album, she waded delightfully into reggae, the Jamaican folk-rock. She has begun, timidly, to write songs. Says Singer and Songwriter John David Souther, a friend and onetime lover: "Her creative capacity is endless. I doubt if she knows the depth of it herself...
...German-Mexican family, is a guitarist who sang Mexican songs to his four children when they were little. (Gilbert Ronstadt's name appears with Linda's and that of her friend Bass Player Kenny Edwards as co-author of Lo Siento Mi Vida on the album Hasten Down the Wind...