Word: accomplishes
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...historical analogy, he pointed to the near German victory in World War I as being a classic example of what a unified force could accomplish against overwhelming but a divided force
Despite their initial successes, however, the supporters of the idea remain cautious about their visions of what a Center can accomplish. Effective arguments could be built on the expectation that a school in International Studies at Harvard might make significant contributions to political science. But primary justification for the Center is being drawn instead from the manifest need to correct the currently deplorable situation, in which the University's valuable resources are being squandered through lack of emphasis and coherent organization...
TODAY, nearly 200 years later, U.S. industry has coined a clumsy but descriptive 20th century word for Essayist Johnson's 18th century goal: miniaturization. As never before, businessmen are "studying little things," and through them, learning to accomplish more and more with ever-smaller, but enormously more efficient, machines...
...invasion of Eastern Europe could not even accomplish the liberation of Hungary. We have little reason to believe that the peoples of Eastern Europe want to be liberated by foreign invaders. Their grievences are severe, but even Poland and Yugoslavia show no inclination to overthrow communism or break with Russia. We must not let the tragic course of events in Hungary deceive us. Bloodshed has its own momentum, and forces the participants to extreme positions. The Hungarian rebellion did not begin as an effort to overthrow Communist and Soviet domination, and we cannot suppose that such intensity of feeling exists...
...Ambition Accomplished. When the Stevenson entourage got to Cincinnati-after whirlwind forays into Lexington (where he talked through a drizzle) and Louisville (armory one-third empty)-it was delighted to sense real enthusiasm. Before an applauding (56 interruptions), highly partisan audience in Cincinnati's Music Hall, Stevenson delivered a major speech on foreign policy. "The Republican candidate" said he (obviously nettled because Eisenhower never refers to him by name), has been "misleading" the nation about success at Suez. The truth, he said, is that "in these past few months ... the Communist rulers of Soviet Russia have accomplished a Russian...