Word: accomplishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time, I found out my rights." The late Charles Houston, then Howard's law dean and later N.A.A.C.P.'s counsel, looked on Howard as a self-destroying force: he wanted it to turn out a battery of able Negro lawyers who would one day accomplish the abolition of segregation, and so make Howard obsolete.* Star Student Marshall signed on, eventually (1938) succeeded Houston in the N.A.A.C.P. job. It has taken harddriving, easygoing Marshall to all 48 states, Japan and Korea, has several times put him in hot spots where mobs menaced his life. Inching along from precedent...
...20th century, the vastest empire of all is challenging the ancient historical cycle of rise, decline and fall. Great Britain hopes to accomplish this feat by an agile balance of yield and hold; and by shifting from an imperial dominance-by-one to a Commonwealth partnership of all. Can the British succeed where all other empires have failed...
...will be difficult to combat these arguments, irrational as they are. In the public eye, stimulated by McCarthy's pyrotechnics, anyone who uses the Fifth Amendment is a full-fledged spy. Better public relations than any one University might accomplish would be needed to crase this view. Only be actually firing all Fifth Amendment professors, and making public massacres for the press would the University completely succeed, but no opinion, no matter how potentially harmful to our interests, justifies setting aside the principles of tenure. Therefore, while an enlarged public relations program will not solve all the problems created...
...suggested that permitting White to continue his espionage operations might enable the Truman Administration to entrap not only White but the whole Soviet espionage ring working within our Government. To accomplish such an end would require infinite and detailed care if the national interest was to be at all protected...
...financial wizard, the Post has not only joined the Senator's crusade against Communism, but started crusades of its own: to ban books from Boston's libraries, prevent the appointment of James B. Conant as U. S. High Commissioner in Germany, and unseat the management of Harvard University. To accomplish his purposes, Fox has accepted severe financial losses, for his competitors can offer advertisers morning and afternoon papers for the price of one. But he has held on. Fox has run the Post a little more than a year, but has already so bred his personality and purpose into...