Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...address at Harvard last June, Gerard Piel said: "But all too suddenly and unprepared, we have come to a fork in the road. The progress of which I speak has disclosed the noblest and most generous ends to human life and has placed in our hands the means to accomplish them here on this earth. In the command of those same means, progress has also given the power of irrevocable decision to our historic capacity for cruelty and folly...
...Gerard Piel, the publisher of Scientific American: "But all too suddenly and unprepared, we have come to the fork in the road. The progress of which I speak has disclosed the noblest and most generous ends to human life and has placed in our hands the means to accomplish them here on this earth, [and] has also given the power of irrevocable decision to our historic capacity for cruelty and folly...
...exile leader: "We ourselves had two arms caches seized here during the past few weeks. If anyone tries to buy more than 100 gallons of gasoline, the U.S. authorities immediately investigate. They don't have to help us. If they would -just leave us alone, we could accomplish much...
...collect at least 72,500 petition signatures. His devoted band of followers, largely made up of pacifists and ban-the-bomb marchers, actually gathered 117,636-a remarkable feat. He has spent $30,000 on his campaign, piled up debts of $12,000. What is he trying to accomplish? He wants to get a serious public hearing for his ideas on disarmament and disengagement. He also wants to prove that a man without much money can run for high public office...
Just how well those U.S. labs accomplish their self-appointed task was spelled out last week when Physicist Sir John Cockcroft delivered a stern lecture to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. "We have a good deal to learn from some American organizations who have a consistent record of success in developing new products by objective basic and applied research," said Sir John, who spoke with the authority of a Nobel Laureate (1951) and an Atoms for Peace Award winner (1961). As an example, he singled out the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York and New Jersey, where...