Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contents are undeniable facts. ---- It is a masterpiece, and should accomplish the purpose for which it was written."--Thomas L. Clarke, Justice of the Peace, Brown City, Michigan...
...problem of replacing the hundreds of aging DC-35 still hauling passengers and cargo on U.S. airways. At $590,000, Fairchild's new aircraft will carry almost twice the load (40 passengers) at half again the speed (more than 280 m.p.h.) twice the distance (1,700 miles), and accomplish the task in pressurized, air-conditioned comfort. Says Fairchild President Richard S. Boutelle: "Every DC-3 in the air is fair game for us, and we want to replace them...
...special meaning. Says he: "One of the wisest things my daddy ever told me was that 'so-and-so is a damned smart man, but the fool's got no sense.' " By sense, Johnson means the art of knowing what is possible and how to accomplish it. He does not waste time on lost causes. He realizes that hot issues are rarely settled by victory for the extremists on either side. Always willing to give a little in return for a lot, Johnson is the Senate's acknowledged master at charting the paths of accommodation...
...their 13th week, and the letters, notes and messages added up to 30,250 words-22,800 Communist, 7,450 U.S.-six times the wordage of the Constitution. "And the heart of the matter is," Dulles went on, "are you going to have a meeting that is likely to accomplish something? Or is it proposed to have a meeting which would only be a spectacle? . . . We do not want to be a party to what would be a fraud or a hoax...
...missile lag and the possibility of a 5? postage stamp. But he was well pedaled down in one area: concerning civil rights he could only advise that "the Democratic Party must stand firmly and forthrightly for the full enjoyment and protection of civil rights . . . firm and foresighted leadership might accomplish this without calling out the Army for help." Seated way back in the audience but standing out among the liberals like a cypress stump was Arkansas' Orval Faubus, who had flouted the courts and forced the federal call-out in Little Rock. Like a ghost at the banquet...