Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive for this personal and worldly success, the American student separates himself from the political and social context of his existence. In answer to the question, "What two things could you conceivably accomplish during your lifetime that you would be most proud of?" only three percent of American students answered "Serving in national affairs" of "being a good citizen" to rank as the lowest percentage giving this reply among the ten nations polled...
Housemasters will no longer be restricted to choosing only 70 percent of those who apply to their House as first choice, Perkins explained. The "70 percent" rule was designed to insure an equitable distribution of all types of students in the various Houses. "The new plan will attempt to accomplish the same result in a different way," he said...
...almost old-fashioned in an age when the gallows take far fewer lives than more modern means of destruction. Author Duff will convince all but the most sadistic reader that the gallows are brutal, and that even the basest criminals are too good for hanging. But all he may accomplish is that reformers will propose some more efficient or humanitarian substitutes for the gallows-such as the neat old guillotine, the quick bullet in the back of the neck, or the concentration camp, where prisoners may die unhurriedly and without benefit of rope...
...Anthony Eden to stick closely to the P.W. issue and fend off all Chinese efforts to bargain for U.N. recognition. "To release these men would simply undo the latest of a series of acts of bad faith," wrote the Daily Telegraph summarizing Eden's position. "It would not accomplish the moral rehabilitation of Communist China...
...much does profit-sharing actually accomplish? Last month, at their annual convention in Chicago, members of the Council of Profit Sharing Industries got an answer that shocked them from Joel Goldblatt, president of Chicago's Goldblatt Bros, department store. Goldblatt, whose company has kicked in more than $3,000,000 in profit-sharing since 1942, made clear that sharing profits is no panacea. Said he: "Ideally, profit-sharing should give employees the sense that they are the ones responsible for the success or failure of any business. But in a large company with many diversified jobs, they...