Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chancellor himself), a devoted follower of Adenauer, a passionate believer in European unity. Besides Gerstenmaier's qualifications for the speakership, Chancellor Adenauer also had a reason for wanting him kicked upstairs: as a passionate defender of EDC and its supranational ideal, Gerstenmaier might not be flexible enough to accomplish the horse-trading needed to get the Paris accords through the Foreign Affairs Committee...
Alexander accused the Yale undergraduates of "regrettable cowardice," resulting from the fear of suffering two losses instead of one on Saturday afternoon. He promised, however, to use every possible "unconstitutional maneuver" to bring the Elis to task and to battle. "We shall accomplish our end," Alexander declared...
Everyone, said Dr. Peale, can live a magnificent, effective life-if only "he is right with God . . . You have to get in tune with God and tell yourself at the start of each day, 'Another great day has begun'. . . You can be what you have pictured, and accomplish what you want your life to be . . . The formula for good days ahead is to pray hard, work hard, believe hard-and picture hard...
...Planned yearly production (by 1957): 40,000 vehicles-passenger cars, station wagons, jeeps and light trucks. Argentina has been car-hungry since 1947, when restrictions to save dollar exchange cut imports of U.S. cars to a trickle. With customers eager and competition largely fenced out, Kaiser hopes to accomplish in Argentina what he has failed to do in the U.S.: make money out of automaking...
Almost as soon as he took office in 1953, Harvard's President Nathan Pusey made one thing clear: whatever else he might accomplish, he was determined to put new life into the Divinity School. The school had long suffered from neglect. It was operating with only three full-time professors, had not had a major fund-raising campaign between 1879 and 1949. Though a special committee set up by President Conant did urge that Harvard once again become "a strong center of religious learning," few alumni seemed to care whether Divinity survived...