Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peace Corps begins its sixth year, its directors have apparently decided that a major shift in orientation will be needed to accomplish its aim of fermenting democratic revolutions. Rather than let the Peace Corps degenerate into an export model of the 4-H club, they are aiming at wholesale transformations of the communities in which they work. Simple idealism could never attract the kind of manpower they need. Their project requires an entire philosophy of life, a philosophy based on practicality and the value of direct experience. A Choice I Made embodies that philosophy, and at the same time...
...nearly a quarter of a century, Puerto Rico's "Operation Bootstrap" has served as a model of what a backward economy can accomplish under honest, imaginative leadership. Since 1942, when the island's development program got under way, per capita income has risen from $120 to $905, il literacy has been largely eliminated, life expectancy has jumped from 46 years...
...Harvard's Emmanuel Mesthene, executive director of a ten-year, $5,000,000 program on Technology and Society commissioned by IBM, believes that for the first time since the golden age of Greece, Western man "has regained his nerve" and has come to believe, rightly, that he can accomplish anything. "My hunch," says Mesthene, "is that man may have finally expiated his original sin, and might now aspire to bliss...
...Were the Communist aggressors to win in Viet Nam," said Johnson, "they would know they can accomplish through so-called wars of national liberation what they could not accomplish through naked aggression in Korea, or insurgency in the Philippines, Greece and Malaya, or the threat of aggression in Turkey, or in a free election booth anywhere in the world...
...petty and irrelevent. After all, the NCAA is an athletic association and can concern itself only with athletes. The intent of the NCAA is pure enough; it merely wants to prod the academic stragglers among its members. And being a national body, the NCAA has no way to accomplish this goal except through blanket legislation for all its members...