Word: accomplishes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with signs reading HELL, NO, WE WON'T GO! and tried to burn him in effigy, Westmoreland confessed that his troops "are dismayed, and so am I, by recent unpatriotic acts here at home." He pointed out that the enemy hopes to "win politically that which he cannot accomplish militarily." Noting that North Viet Nam is waging war both on the battlefield and on the propaganda front, he said that the enemy "does not understand that American democracy is founded on debate, and he sees every protest as evidence of crumbling morale and diminishing resolve. Thus, discouraged by repeated...
That was the answer: canvassing, talking to people in their homes. Ten thousand people ringing millions of doorbells across the country could accomplish more than 10,000 public speeches. He had found what was missing from his ideas for utilizing college manpower -- from Tocsin's "Alperovitzing...
...promised to reform the country's backbiting political system and restore parliamentary rule?but he did not say when; next month's elections will almost certainly be called off. In fact, the flaw in the speech was the lack of detail about how Greece's military masters intend to accomplish what other leaders, including King Constantine, have tried and failed...
...Transit Orb out of cello phane designs and polarized plastic filters, which are more commonly used for sunglasses. Manhattan's Earl Reiback, 31, a onetime nuclear engineer, even has fun in taking an object-one of six different nudes-and then modulating the image into total abstraction. To accomplish this, he built his Luminage Projector from two standard Buhl "Carrousel" projectors, altering their machinery so that a full complement of 160 slides would modulate gradually, "sensuously," in one continuous cycle. To achieve his abstract patterns, he painted the slides with transparent chemicals, then aimed a laser beam at some...
Harvard is out to make money from its investments, Bennett said. "We don't try to accomplish social purposes with our capital; we just try to put it where it will bring us the best return...