Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearing went on it became even more obvious that it could accomplish nothing, in any practical sense. The statute of limitations had run: even if a crime had been committed nobody involved could be indicted. When the Congressman had been well mussed Mead called a halt...
Garfield and Turner have done as much for this hodge-podge as any two mis-cast screensters can accomplish in one film. "Postman," if it hadn't been so thoroughly "improved" between story and script, would have come closer to acclaim as a first-rate movie...
...United Nations. He expressed little concern with the current troubles with the Soviet Union but viewed our relations with that country as a task of long term but not insoluble difficulty. Disparaging the proposal to sever relations or use economic sanctions against Franco as one which would not accomplish what we wished to achieve, he termed Spain "a very difficult problem...
...Liars will steal and rogues will murder, if necessary, to accomplish a nefarious purpose. . . . The honeymoon of this lying, corroding crowd of murderers of character is over. Their swill barrel is empty-they have scraped the bottom of the garbage can. . . . Evans intoxicated himself with megalomaniac dreams of power. ... He has tried bullwhipping, browbeating . . . common ordinary lying . . . but the canker of disappointment gnaws at his soul...
...first specific postwar aim that Russia, Britain and the U.S. agreed on (at Moscow in 1943) was that Austria should be "free and independent [with] political and economic security. . . ." Applause twittered around the world; it just went to show, didn't it, what a little good will could accomplish...