Word: accomplishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reword the resolution granting President Eisenhower the authority he wants to act in the Middle East, New Jersey's Republican H. Alexander Smith met Montana's Democrat Mike Mansfield in the offices of the Foreign Relations Committee. "Mike," said Smith, with obvious exasperation, "just what did you accomplish with your amendment...
...course, the Chinese Communist government has for some time been trying to get reporters, preferably those it picked, to come into Communist China," Dulles told his press conference, "and it has repeatedly tried to use the illegal detention of Americans in Communist China as a means of pressure to accomplish its ends . . . That kind of blackmail I don't propose to satisfy...
...week was not inflation but deflation. The fact that the boom is slackening off in a few spots transformed the optimism of a few weeks before into an exaggerated pessimism. Few analysts pointed out that a leveling off is precisely what the Federal Reserve Board has been trying to accomplish for months with its tight-money policy...
...people working on the Carnival do, however, accomplish a great deal on their $10,000 budget and show, in this highly organized commercial effort, that Dartmouth has come a long way since its founding as an Indian Charity School, and that, in the words of its most famous alumnus, Daniel Webster, "It is, gentlemen, a small college, but there are those who love it."Ski-jumping, the last outdoor event of the Carnival, was held last Saturday at the Vale of Tempe, Hanover, N.H. It began to snow that afternoon, which along with the cold, the late start...
...wife and friends, who fear that he will flub during a performance. All this may be hutzpa, but it works. In fact, he rarely flubs, never falls on his face, despite his hurry. The quality that allows him to do in a breeze what others must plod to accomplish is a never-say-die rationality, a formidable ability to put his life in order and his work in form. He can divide his brain into three or four separate task forces, attack three or four different objectives?prepare a script, study a score, work out a melody, amuse a child?...