Word: accomplishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been seated at the wheel of U.S. production, it was, quite simply, a job which could be done because it had to be done (see EDUCATION). As the nation's Mr. Production, he has not the slightest doubt that U.S. brain and muscle can accomplish anything that is asked of it-and double the accomplishment next year...
...They are glad the world is beginning to realize that they have not lost their ancient talent for fighting. The news of spectacular Turkish feats in Korea did not amaze Tahir Atar, a villager from Mengen in central Anatolia. Said he last week: "We knew what our kids could accomplish, but our friends, the Americans, didn't. Now they know-and so do the mosk...
...that Mobilizer Wilson sounded the call for industrial control, President Truman announced what he proposed to do about the manpower squeeze. If & when it becomes necessary, he said, the Government will impose manpower controls more stringent and more universal than any adopted during World War II. He hoped to accomplish the job through "voluntary measures," the President added. But if that voluntary approach failed, he would use his present powers and ask Congress for any additional ones needed to let the Government: 1) tell employers the numbers and kinds of workers they may hire, 2) see that individuals serve...
...moving into its heyday. A long, lyrical study of the emotional and moral bankruptcy of U.S. expatriates in France, Fitzgerald's book sold badly, and was received indifferently by the critics. He spent the last years of his life in Hollywood, at first optimistic about what he could accomplish there, at length convinced that "for a long time [the movies] will remain nothing more nor less than an industry to manufacture children's wet goods." When he died of a heart attack at 44, hardly anybody went to the funeral home. One who did was his old friend...
Would either accomplish the job that had to be done: drive the shark back to deep water, or shoot it? Douglas was convinced that neither could. The end of Gibraltarism would be the feast of the shark on all Asia and Europe, he argued. U.S. forces, he said, are the key to West Europe's resistance. "If we refuse [to help], they . . . may indeed throw in the sponge...