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The Brotherhood grew rapidly through the thirties, in particular among those educated and alienated lower-middle classes.

A project of this kind, covering more than a century and two nations (with frequent glances at Ireland, Germany, France, Spain, Canada, and Italy), is obliged to move rapidly or become impossibly long.

As the rapidly vaporizing comet wreckage was carried forward into the growing crater, the shock wave curved back up to the surface and spewed out ejecta--melted blobs and solid fragments of target rock--upward and outward on high, arching trajectories that flung them through the thin outer fringes of the atmosphere and beyond.

With the disappearance of the dinosaurs, there were new opportunities for mammals, and evolution rapidly produced large ones.

(Their visit is also marked by a statue and a placard.) In 1859 as in 1804, there were no railroad tracks crossing each other, no houses, only unbroken fields of wild grass and sunflowers, but there were a few streets in the rapidly growing village of Omaha running up and down the river hills.

There was a nasty man there, who told me not to put my glass down on the snack bar with all the rapid, efficient insolence of Henry.

All the same our two apartments soon became a zigzag duplex and Max's English improved rapidly.

If they found a rapid pulse, they tried one remedy; if the urine was cloudy, they tried another.

As Mitrokhin had hoped, Shelepin rapidly established himself as a new broom within the KGB, replacing many veteran Stalinists with bright young graduates from Komsomol.

Should the UPFA come to power, even this caveat will rapidly vanish as Colombo is obviously in no position to lay down the law to the IMF, World Bank and foreign investors.

the death toll is rising rapidly among the inexperienced U.S. troops unfamiliar with their assigned areas and the tactics of their suicidal opponents.

Bush is right to remain focused on a rapid transition to Iraqi sovereignty, as long as we keep enough forces on hand to clear the long path to democratic elections.

Instead, a more typical thought from the rapid-fire mind of Johnny A. might be this:

“Usually you should do a business plan first,” Pat said, as she talked about the rapid growth of the company since it was founded two years ago.

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