Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate opposition -what little there was- knew that they had been beaten before they started. They had no apparent strategy for concerted attack. But the Charter's proponents did. That strategy was: accentuate the negative. What the Charter would not do, rather than what it might hopefully accomplish, was their theme. Carefully and objectively, white-suited Chairman Tom Connally and Senator Arthur Vandenberg explained the Charter would not abridge U.S. sovereignty; it would not put war-won Pacific islands under international trusteeship; it would not impose some postwar schemes of disarmament upon the U.S. without U.S. approval; it would...
...dozen islands) since Dec. 26, when MacArthur declared the Leyte campaign strategically closed and turned over the mop-up (which has produced 26,000 dead Japs) to the Eighth. The "Amphibious Eighth" staged the Visayan campaign, which MacArthur called "a model of what a light but aggressive command can accomplish in rapid exploitation." Then it went on to Sulu and Mindanao, where the grateful Sultan of Sulu and Moro chiefs presented to Eichelberger several handsome kris and bolo knives (which the General displays prominentlv at his thatched headquarters on Leyte...
...Friday, Hollywood was beginning to tire. But not, Mr. Rank. At week's end, as the suspense became more than Hollywood could bear, someone boldly asked Rank if he were accomplishing anything. "Accomplishing anything?" 'he chuckled. "How can you accomplish anything in fairyland...
...light of the problem of general education at every level and, in particular, to familiarize themselves with the work of the public schools. To my mind, the heart of the problem of a general education is the continuance of the liberal and human tradition. How the committee proposes to accomplish this in both school and college, however, is their story and not mine...
Himalayan Headaches. The personal and technical difficulties which had to be surmounted to accomplish this job and keep it going were Himalayan. For Wedemeyer it meant a twelve-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week job. Paper work and conferences were endless. The stream of visitors at the General's Chungking headquarters includes diplomats and production experts as well as military personnel. But from 4 to 5 each afternoon is reserved for the Generalissimo-and often Wedemeyer uses the hour to call on Chiang...