Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stalin: The Government must be vested with wide powers to accomplish that. . . . Magazine analysts and the American press carry open reports to the effect that an economic crisis will break...
...mythology, when one of God's creatures is tempted by the Devil, God Himself is thereby given the opportunity to recreate the World. By the stroke of the Adversary's trident, all the fountains of the great deep are broken up. The Devil's intervention has accomplished that transition from Yin [passivity] to Yang [creativity] . . . for which God has been yearning ever since His Yin-state became complete, but which it was impossible for God to accomplish by Himself, out of His own perfection. And the Devil has done more for God than this; for, when once...
...million a year. Only Britain's economic and political assistance had enabled the country to keep up its costly, nerve-racking resistance against Communist demands on the Dardanelles. With Britain unable to furnish assistance, Turkey would crack up under the cost of continued mobilization. The Russians could accomplish by mere threat of invasion all that they could hope to achieve by invasion. If Turkey and the Dardanelles went, the whole Middle East might slide into the Russian orbit...
West's plan is "to open a new method of presentation to the College, since there is no adequate theater here." To accomplish his ends. West intends to use the technique of "central staging...
...Commission, promptly sought to divert the Commission's attention from the neighboring countries to Greece's tragic internal situation. The five Leftists, condemned by Greek Army court-martial of plotting rebellion against the King's Government, looked like the perfect bit of drama to accomplish just that (though they were in no way different from 121 Leftists executed before them, or the 46 scheduled to be executed after them...