Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American who is ready to take the initiative, the intellectual life at Oxford is still in many ways the most stimulating in the world. If he doesn't accomplish enough academically the fault lies with on one but himself...
Colonel Ralph Isham, a wealthy Manhattan collector, to accomplish that, and in 1949 he passed the papers on to Yale (for a reported $500,000), where at last they were published (seven volumes so far) and became part of Curator Tinker's rare books collection...
Cementing an Alliance. Hardly had he taken office than Daley showed just how much a real politician could accomplish. For years, the Democratic city of Chicago and the generally Republican state of Illinois had been at a financial impasse: each needed more sales-tax revenue, but neither could get it without mutual support in the state legislature. Daley paid a call on Republican Governor William Stratton and came to an agreement-a half-cent for the state, a half-cent for Chicago. In one hour's work in Stratton's office, Daley picked up additional revenue for Chicago...
...could not long remain silent, lest Khrushchev appear to be the "coward" that Mao now called him. Now that the Chinese Reds have nailed their theses tothe Kremlin wall, some men in Moscow would be thinking of excommunication. Stalin's posthumous excommunication took only three years to accomplish; and already the Sino-Soviet quarrel has raged for longer than that...
...Awori garners his triple, he will become the first trackman in Madison Square Garden history to accomplish such a feat. Only one man has ever before scored dash-hurdles double in the Garden. This was Hayes Jones in the 1960 New York Athletic Club meet...