Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night before the Congress opened, the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. endorsed the Washington civil rights march next week, and passed a resolution urging both laymen and ministers to join it. But there were some quiet dissents from Southern Episcopalians. "The resolution was not the way to accomplish anything," complained Bishop George Gunn of Southern Virginia. "Mass meetings don't help anybody." And at an open session of the Congress, Layman Francis T. West of Martinsville, Va., complained that by using Christianity as a front in the civil rights issue, the church "thus becomes a mere handmaiden...
Though not as wellborn as Sister Virginia, Osio belonged to a gang of reckless noblemen who "did nothing night and day but roam the streets armed with forbidden weapons, breaking into houses, assaulting now this one, now that, giving them wounds." To accomplish the seduction of the nun, Osio frequently attended Mass at the convent, sent intermediaries with gifts of silver crucifixes and other valuables, and even employed a licentious priest to help him achieve a persuasive elegance in his love letters...
...announced test blasts with 545 megatons of destruction-more than enough to destroy civilization. For 15 years of nerve-racking cold war and five years of futile, frustrating negotiations, fear and reason had not been enough to halt the weapons race. The test ban, though it may accomplish little else, at least suggests that fear and reason, those eminently constructive forces, can still operate with some success in human affairs. The agreement does not spring from concern for humanity, although it is surely tinged with that, or from a change of heart on either side. It simply shows that both...
...Great Escape. Seventy-six Allied officers accomplish the impossible: a mass breakout from the Nazis' top-security prison camp. The plans and preparation are shown in almost hypnotic detail, and once the escape is under way, the suspense tightens like pincers. Steve McQueen. James Garner, Donald Pleasence, Richard Attenborough head an excellent all-male cast in one of the season's most exciting pictures...
...then his umbrellas and shells have popped up everywhere-as factories, housing projects, private homes, chapels or as shelters for the marketplace. The basic shell forms are only an inch or two thick, but they can be modified, tipped, inverted, varied almost indefinitely. In earlier days, Candela seemed to accomplish this feat of engineering almost by intuition; he gave the impression of looking down on those who mathematically calculated and recalculated stress. Today Candela checks his designs with the help of IBM machines at University City. "I am," says he happily, "the prisoner of geometry." Candela is usually content...