It took an hour to walk a mile, the clouds pressing down forcefully, hastening the arrival of colder air.

Source: https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/12/24/everyday-concerns-seem-distant-during-a-winter-trek-at-baxter-state-park/

It was a fate I would gladly have accepted if it meant hastening the end of the Vietnam war, unlikely as that seemed.”

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/18/ellsberg-trump-classified-document-different

Supposedly hard-up working-class people go all-out constructing Halloween shrines to the totem figures of decay and death, as in some depraved cargo cult competition aimed at hastening our country’s descent into chaos.

Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/10/james-howard-kunstler/comes-the-dancing-skeleton/