1.  McCarthyism intensified the sense of unease.

2.  In addition, the evangelicals say, the current White House scandal has intensified their sense that sin reigns.

3.  No one was hurt in the two incidents, but they intensified the sense among many Israelis that they are escaping catastrophe by the narrowest of margins.

4.  That inhuman crime was a turning point in the civil rights movement, intensifying its sense of mission and awakening the conscience of white America.

5.  The whiff of success has intensified their sense of the challenge and excitement of being on the verge of a potentially transforming discovery.

6.  A government report Friday morning of an unexpectedly strong rise in consumer prices in March intensified a sense of easiness that has pulled stock prices lower all week.

7.  It also contains a small amount of mescaline which heightens perceptions of colors and intensifies other senses.

8.  Schoolchildren now salute the Palestinian flag every morning, intensifying a sense of nationhood.