Word: accomplishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which the U.S. is committed." Then, in words that took in other Koreas, i.e., divided Germany and Austria, he added: "We remain determined to play our part in achieving the political union of all countries so divided . . ." But the U.S. would not "employ war as an instrument to accomplish the worldwide political settlements to which we are dedicated and which we believe to be just...
...time is as ripe for a conference as it has been in the last seven years. Churchill's proposal catches Russia in the middle of her peace offensive where she can hardly be caught refusing the offer. Whether a talk will accomplish anything is another problem, depending entirely upon Russia's willingness to make concessions...
...easier to raise funds than now. A great Negro leader, the late James Weldon Johnson, once said that leadership was a form of escape; by this he meant that "Negro spokesmen" might gain a lot of prestige by making speeches and gathering personal followings, but did not really accomplish very much. Today's Negro leader concentrates on getting things done on specific issues. Emancipated to a large extent from the white professional liberals and their pet slogan, "education," he tries, for instance, to get a court ruling on segregation in Pullmans instead of trying to "educate" millions of individual Pullman...
Down several notches but also effective is "The Boy Those Father Owned a Barn" by James Bucchler. The descriptive passages are sharply sensory; the reader smells the kitchen and warms to the stove. But to accomplish this, Bucchler loads every noun with adjectives, so that the few action passages are heavy and slow...
...down responsibility." They also planned to question possible security risks among employees of the U.S. High Commission for Germany, and, as an added assignment, they would inspect the books on the shelves of USIS libraries. Cohn and Schine reckoned it would take them only about ten days to accomplish their staggering mission...