Word: accomplish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is only the vaguest idea of a military mission to accomplish: from the platoon's point of view, and ours, their only objective is to emerge from the jungle at the end of the day with arms and legs and life intact. Men die in brutal and unexpected ways, booby-trapped, shot from the treeline. The survivors of each attack shake with terror and rage. Their friends die at the hands of an invisible enemy who always seems to be a step ahead...
...round-the-world flight without stopping and without refueling is one of the last firsts of atmospheric aviation. Perhaps because such a feat had become almost an anachronism, no one before had tried to accomplish it. The flight was always considered impossible because no plane could carry enough fuel to take it 23,000 miles. But last week, while the attention of the nation was directed toward weightier, more dispiriting matters in Washington, Voyager sailed over the Pacific, over Africa and into the South Atlantic, more than halfway home, offering the world a needed distraction. Voyager's journey called...
...What they could not accomplish at the ballot box, the president's opponents are trying to accomplish on the evening news," Buchanan said Monday night. "We know what they are after, and who they are after...
...87th edition of the Harvard men's hockey team has a mission to accomplish this season...
...will see what has been done and develop a list of priorities to see what we want to accomplish in the future," Kent said...