Word: accomplishable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ritual murder of Kerrigan will accomplish nothing. It will not bring the dead policeman back to life. It will not lower the rate of such crimes in the future. And it will not even serve as a powerful object lesson or a proper titillation for those with sadistic impulses, because it will be done quickly and secretively, like the shameful thing...
...much slower Japanese destroyer." A Pulitzer Prize author? "Kennedy had considerable help." Even Kennedy's use of naval power to pressure Khrushchev to withdraw his missiles from Cuba was, to Lasky, merely a ploy for domestic political advantage, since "among other things, Kennedy was able to accomplish the political destruction of his former rival, Richard M. Nixon, in California...
...Practical Burial Footwear Company of Columbus, Ohio, which offer Fit-a-Fut oxfords (in patent, calf, tan or oxblood) and Ko-Zee, with its "soft, cushioned soles and warm, luxurious slipper comfort, but true shoe smartness." Courtesy Products has a "new Bra-form, Post Mortem Form Restoration . . . they accomplish so much for so little ($11 for a package of 50)," and at a recent convention of the National Funeral Directors' Association, Florence Gowns Inc. of Cleveland showed a line of "hostess gowns and brunch coats" for loved ones...
What manner of country and what sort of people must the Communists deal with in trying to accomplish their mission? China, of course, is enormous -14 times the size of Texas. It ex tends 2,400 miles from the banks of the Amur River in topmost Manchuria to the tropical jungle border with Viet Nam, and 2,500 miles across from the indented coast on the China Sea to the Kunlun Mountains deep in Central Asia. Inside this vast domain lies just about every variety of flora and fauna imaginable, from rollicking pandas to prowling tigers, from the invigorating ginseng...
...Great Escape. Under the very eyes of hard-eyed Nazi guards, 76 Allied officers accomplish a mass breakout from a top-security prison camp. The preparations 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...