Word: accomplishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even from the viewpoint of the Congressmen who support it, UMT would be a failure. Its passage would accomplish nothing but the alienation of many votes...
Philbrick has little to say shout what made his associates tick, why they were communists or what they were trying to accomplish. He does not talk much about their links with results nor about their espionage activities, nor about any of the other factors which make Communism far more dangerous than a group of office-girls sitting around and reading the "Masifesto." Philbrick's look at Commssion only scratches at the top layer of a problem which gets far too much superficial handling...
...clumsily constructed straw-man. The aim of universal service is to create an army large enough both to make Soviet aggression costly and to assure Western Europe of United States protection in case of war. It does not require an army numbering in the hundreds of millions to accomplish this, but it takes more than a supply of airplanes, bombs, and battleships--a supply which, despite the questionnaire's claims, is no greater than Russia...
Much remains for his graduates to accomplish, Gropius says. In the U.S., "you go along a big street that is lined for miles & miles with filling stations and restaurants that have absolutely no relationship to the setting, a hodgepodge of ugliness ... Or some suburban developer comes along, cutting down the trees, bulldozing the site and befouling our habitat." A purist with a sad, cold eye, Gropius believes that the main reason for the architectural ugliness he finds everywhere is "inertia of the heart. Man still clings to some visible reminder of Grandpa...
...armed to carry out a revolution. "The charge is not only untrue, but it is an intellectual insult," he stated. "I have never said it and I am not going to say it. I believe in the Constitution of the United States and I believe that the people can accomplish any reforms they need through the Constitution...