Word: accomplishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...virtue, he announced that he would campaign on a platform of "oldfashioned honesty," a "solid dollar," "greater harmony between groups in our country," and "a new American foreign policy, dynamic and clear-cut, to win the peace and gain expanding freedom for ourselves and for others." To help him accomplish his goals, said Stassen, he intended to call on such men as Douglas MacArthur (for Western Pacific problems), Bernard Baruch (for economics), Dwight Eisenhower (for Western Europe), Herbert Hoover (for Government reorganization). Ralph Bunche (for the United Nations), Democrats Jim Farley and Senator Harry Byrd (for liaison with the Democrats...
Despite all the ruckus over questionable loans and influence-peddling, the Reconstruction Finance Corp. managed to accomplish a few things last year. RFC Administrator Stuart Symington, who took over the agency when it smelled the worst last May, reported that in fiscal 1951 (ending last June 30), RFC paid more than $95 million to its sole stockholder, the U.S. Treasury...
...greatest works of secular art are darkness beside what faith and art, working together, can accomplish. Faith shines through the Chartres windows as serenely as sunlight. To see them is to give thanks that faith, like sunlight, forever returns to mankind...
...when the U.S. mail traveled between primitive Miami and Palm Beach on bare but intrepid feet. The menace comes from a marauding band of beachcombers, who would as gladly rob the postal service as kidnap the ingenue or shoot up the village of Miami. In bright new SupercineColor,* they accomplish all three...
...letter requests Truman to resolve these questions, and concludes, "I am anxious to serve my country in any way that will accomplish anything; but I am not anxious to die for the sake of dying...