Word: quickener
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Planned Defense. The Air Ministry does its best to beat off the irritating raids. An elaborate watch and signaling system can at best only hope to give ground gunners 50 seconds' warning, so sharpshooter gunners are being trained by special diet and physical exercises to quicken their perceptions. They must be able to range, sight and destroy targets within five seconds. Sharpshooters must agree to live a monastic regime. On duty the gunners are not allowed to stoop even to pick up a dropped coin...
Obscurely, almost as if its diminished pulse responded to a more rapid pulse within the earth, the life of Nanty Glo began to quicken. Women appeared at the doors of the almost identical, bleak, boxlike houses that line the town, the lesser wooden shacks; children and dogs ventured into the rain. At the entrance to the tunnel of the Heisley mine, the thick steel cable which miners call "the rope" began to move. After five minutes, scores of coal cars filled with miners came from beneath the earth, black as the coal they mined, only the whites of their eyes...
...Sert and his colleagues do not propose to leave the city to its apparently inevitable fate. Instead of dispersing the city or making it smaller, they would quicken its blood stream by means of express highways; give it air to breathe by surrounding each business and industrial district with a green belt; make it self-contained by providing facilities for recreation and fuller living within the city itself...
Parts of a World is a book to quicken people's awareness of the difference between rote and imagination. His 60-odd lyrics are tailored to meet the specifications of his idea of an ordered world. They are all intended to show that the imagination is that faculty in man which enables him to tailor facts after his heart's desire. The tailoring, however, is not to be done by mere wishful thinking, but by the bowing of the skilled workman over his fully apprehended...
...Chinese faces on the lawn did not change. Chinese pulses did not quicken. The applause was polite...