Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BILL HALEY is the earliest rock auteur (which chronologically places him somewhere between Johnny Ray and Elvis Presley). Not only did Haley accomplish rock's conquest of the pop charts with Rock Around the Clock, he molded a cheerful, sincerely synthetic style that brought him hits like Shake, Rattle, and Roll and See Ya Later, Allgiator, and enabled him and his Comets to appropriate any old song for rock's use--remember, for instance, Rockin' Through the Rye. (While speaking of Haley, we might note the best successor to his practices, Johnny and the Hurricanes. Though not properly belonging...
...myself as a white liberal who hopes that America will one day include a 12 per cent Negro poor population, a 12 per cent Negro rich population, professions of law and medicine composed 12 per cent of Negroes, and so forth. This will be a most difficult thing to accomplish, and blacks and whites who want this to come about must be as tough and realistic as Mustafa Kemal's Turks, Castro's Cubans in the early years, and the Jews of America and Israel. There is need for strict population control, millions of federal dollars, reorganization of ghetto government...
...they have had to fall back on costly and time-consuming drilling to probe the earth's secrets. Now, New Mexico's Sandia Corp. has developed new tools for preliminary subsurface exploration that may do in minutes or hours what now takes days and even months to accomplish. The new devices: high-speed, instrumented projectiles dropped from aircraft or propelled by rockets...
...substantive changes might help the SFAC accomplish more: the Council must have a permanent chairman to give it some sort of continuos direction; SFAC should be more willing to accept at least the wording of committee resolutions and not waste valuable time over petty points; meetings should be once a week, and those members who cannot attend should resign rather than hold up the others; provisions should be made to continue the Council next year...
...President has retreated into an ever-narrowing inner circle of advisers, and nobody outside that coterie knows what is on his mind, what questions he is asking or what he hopes to accomplish. According to one Cabinet member, the key men around him are newly installed Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, National Security Adviser Walt W. Rostow and Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, a hawk from the first, has apparently lost much of his influence with the President because, one observer suggests, he has developed some doubts about the war. So has Central Intelligence Agency Director...