Word: quickened
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...time since 1939, become one continent again. No one was ready to predict when the new Europe will come. Charles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle, 75, arriving in Moscow to rebuild the "proud tower" of European nationalism from the Atlantic to the Urals, was doing what he could to quicken the pace...
...nude that your eyes quicken for ruth, the white horse, bawdy as the Apocalypse, tail a flame, his testicles asway, steps into his sunlight harness...
...five states principally affected by the civil rights movement. The 1965 Voting Rights Act, followed this year by the U.S. Supreme Court's abolition of state poll taxes, has already wrought subtle changes in the style and structure of Southern politics. The transformation is bound to quicken as more and more Negroes are enfranchised...
...quicken the game, he suggested that an intentional pass should be automatic without the pitcher's having to throw four balls, that the ball should not be chucked around the infield after every out, and that relief pitchers who have been warming up for seven innings" should not throw eight warmup pitches when they enter the game...
...into the cooperative ventures that they have so assiduously avoided in the past. Though its initial appropriation of $12 million is scarcely enough to buy 1½ miles of Manhattan subway, the program at last-and at least-recognizes that the metropolitan crisis demands a coordinated, scientific approach to quicken civic consciences and radically improve the total context of city living...