Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past noon when Nixon ended the talks by observing: "Well, I think the meeting has accomplished about all that it can accomplish." Morton put in a call to Agnew. "Are you sitting down?" Morton inquired. Nixon got on the phone and broke the news. "I'm overwhelmed," said Agnew, whose stoic expression rarely admits of such a condition...
...highly touted microbe killer ("Will prevent LaGrippe, Catarrh, Consumption, Malaria, Blood Poison, Rheumatism and all disorders of the blood"). There was also an elixir "guaranteed to destroy all desire for liquor" and a magical tonic called "Peruvian wine of cocoa" that was recommended "if you wish to accomplish double the amount of work or have to undergo an unusual amount of hardship." Arsenic wafers were offered to tone up the complexion, and an "electric ring for rheumatism" (85?; goldplated...
...talk, and none in high places, about how America should rethink its role in world affairs, although the usual lip service is paid to the need for a change. There has been a refusal to admit that the next Administration must infuse billions of dollars into our cities to accomplish what the platform rhetoric claims the GOP wants to accomplish...
Even so, the minimal bill was almost certainly more than the House would have passed before Robert Kennedy's death. It will accomplish some useful purposes, such as banning over-the-counter sales of rifles, shotguns, and bigger weapons to most out-of-staters, those under 18, fugitives, mental defectives, felons and anyone under indictment for a crime...
...That is our ideal goal," said assistant Dean of Freshmen W.C. Burris Young. "We try to avoid hatchet murder situations." To accomplish this, Young added, "we try to give each student what he asks...