Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accomplish this admittedly "colossal undertaking?" The Plan points out only directions, leaves it to other Government agencies to build the roads...
...accomplish this end the Nazis have used four familiar techniques: 1) for wearied and worried captive masses, the Nazis provide programs that emphasize their woes, carefully bypassing any German responsibility; 2) for gullible listeners, they furnish scapegoats such as the Jews for troubles of every kind; 3) to wear opponents, they endlessly reiterate unhappy news, such as the fictitious sinking of the Ark Royal; 4) to break down confidence in harassed enemy governments the Nazis quote and misquote important local sources: for example, in one recent week, they misquoted the Manchester Guardian criticizing Churchill, misquoted the august Times discussing supply...
...urged that it would be "easier to start rebuilding the world now" than "after more years of destruction and exhaustion." They declared that peace was "not a static condition to be attained after the defeat of those who disturb it," but "a dynamic method by which to remove injustices, accomplish necessary readjustments, and remedy the evils...
...When Napoleon planned the invasion of Britain, he dreamed of just such a stripping as this, and sent his fleet as a decoy to the West Indies to try to accomplish it; but then only Nelson and the Mediterranean squadron entered the chase. With the Bismarck gone, the Germans still have her sister, the Tirpitz. If the German Navy, knowing what certain death it would be, nevertheless sent the Tirpitz out on a similar sweep, it might be a tipoff for invasion...
Your slogan seems to be "Curt, Clear, Complete." One meaning of "curt" is rude. Now I could refer to your editors as "bowlegged waddies," "brocklefaced bozos," "drugstore caballeros" or "maverick-roping rustlers," and perhaps accomplish nothing but a feeling of resentment on their part. That would be rude. Besides, it would not be true. But the point I am trying to make is that your writers go out of their way to describe their subjects as "potbellied," "bullnecked," "paunchy," and the like. By so doing they invite ill will, engender resentment, and offend the nice sensibilities, for instance, of foreign...