Word: accomplishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signatures meant even more: San Francisco was the most clean-cut demonstration yet of what bold U.S. initiative can accomplish. This fact centered particularly on two men. John Foster Dulles had spent a year working his way through the barriers-the fears and natural prejudices of the free nations, the threats and legalisms thrown up by the Russians to block a Japanese Peace Treaty. He had succeeded with the kind of patient persistence and resourcefulness that U.S. statecraft had all but forgotten. As president of the conference, Secretary of State Dean Acheson personified U.S. determination to get on with...
...river, swollen with the muddy waters from the Sudan and the Ethiopian mountains, as always carried life and hope; as they had for centuries, pregnant peasant women ate mud from its fertile banks, believing that it would make their unborn children strong. Yet even the Nile could not accomplish that miracle. In Egypt, two out of four children die before they are five years old, and the survivors are almost certain to be diseased. In fields which they do not own, 14 million fellahin (70% of Egypt's population) labor over crops whose fruit they will...
Cautious Contact. What might the balloon barrage accomplish? Crusade for Freedom is not, so far, suggesting revolt, for revolt-like General Bor's in Warsaw -can be premature and disastrous. Instead, the balloons are an imaginative experiment in contact, bearing a message of hope until the time might be ripe for other words...
...river, Red." Red Hill worked at odd jobs, did some tourist guiding, shot the rapids himself in 1945 and 1948, gradually developed an irresistible hankering to go over the falls from the top. If he did it and lived, he would be the fourth person in history to accomplish the feat.* Said he: "People want to see somebody go over those falls. I'm their...
Viewed from the canyon's high rim, the dam looks too small to create, as it will, a patch of mottled green land nearly as big as Connecticut. But all modern irrigation dams look small when compared with what they do. They accomplish their ends by geographical judo, playing on the weaknesses of their rivers...