Word: quickening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the atmosphere at the Winter White House began to quicken. Mrs. Truman and Margaret prepared to return to Washington. The President and his advisers got ready to draft the State of the Union Address, the Budget Message and the President's Economic Report. Written within sight of the sand, sun and sea, they would still have to bear, for delivery in January, the proper tone of heaviness and contention, so necessary to state messages...
...cultivate. Its old lands, "plundered" by reckless exploitation, are losing fertility as their "irreplaceable topsoil" washes down the rivers. Farmlands cannot maintain their present production. The world's population is still increasing rapidly, and modern medicine, by cutting the death rate from infectious diseases, is sure to quicken this increase. The falling food-production curve, cry the Neo-Malthusians, will soon cross the rising population curve. Then-kaput...
...attempting to get in a reserve supply of nurses to stem any danger of a recurrence of the situation. Acquiring nurses who will both quicken the Crimson flow and take blood safely and efficiently is no easy task, however, according to Fialkow...
...Gurley, Huna Rosenfeld and Jack Cogan in the distances. Still, until the Stadium cinders dry out enough to permit continued use, Coach Mikkola won't be able to figure out definitely which runners which start in which events against Brown, Tufts and Rhode Island State on April 19. To quicken conditioning, twice-daily workouts have been scheduled for the vacation week...
...plain country meetinghouses, Quaker farmers and their families still worshiped according to the precepts of their 17th Century English founder George Fox, waiting in "living silence" for the Inner Light to quicken in them direct awareness of God's will. They felt no need of dogmas, ritual, or "hired priests." They studied their Bibles for spiritual inspiration rather than as final, unchangeable authority as to the nature and will...