Word: accomplishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Purpose. He turned to the kind of shrewd analysis of Communist forces which the U.S. seldom hears from its officials. The Russians, he said, have not yet attained a position from which they can accomplish the most important of their objectives, "economic containment and gradual strangulation of America . . . They know that our productive power, our economic strength is acutely dependent upon vast quantities of critical materials that we import from other sections of the globe. Their method, therefore, is to infiltrate those areas, to seize them, control them and so deny us those materials that we so badly need...
...land with such crops as rice, grapefruit, bananas and palms, cut down and export mahogany. He agreed to pour back the first five years' profits into the development. With such material aid, LeTourneau, who is flying ahead "to be there when the boat rams that beach," hopes to accomplish a material and spiritual Point Four. Says he: "Hungry natives will listen to us about God if we can show them a field of grain with a combine harvesting more in a day than they can eat in a year...
...Nations, his showing was brilliant enough (by Kremlin standards) to make him heir presumptive to Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, whose health is none too good. In sending him to London instead of Washington, and in sending a nonentity to Washington, the Russians are plainly saying that they expect to accomplish more mischief in Britain than in the U.S. What mischief? Driving a wedge between the U.S. and Britain. Along with the diplomatic switch last week, both Pravda and Izvestia began playing up stories of "intensified Anglo-American contradictions." Andrei Gromyko presumably goes to London to hold the wedge...
...matter of fact, if the national convention in July upholds the Texas swindle, it may accomplish just about what the Lone Star leaders asked for. Once the Party approves the ban on new voters, they are not likely to fight for long to get in. And the Texas Democrats accept all the votes they can get--white votes willingly and Negro votes by order of the Supreme Court...
...another hope for dealing with the problem of high-speed heating lies in speed itself. When high speeds are reached. Rice points out, there is a certain time lag before the airplane's structure heats to the danger point. Future military planes may be fast enough to accomplish their missions and slow down again before they begin to melt...