Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of what Witness Novak had to say was already public knowledge (TIME, Nov. 8). But her appearance did accomplish one thing: it at least generated some sort of start to the hearings -after eight weeks of shilly-shallying by a Senate committee all too obviously reluctant to undertake an investigation that might hit close to home...
Joel Sharkey, NSA's national affairs vice-president, was critical of the actions by the two schools. "If they are unhappy with present policies of NSA, they are certainly not going to accomplish anything by withdrawing," he said. "If the more conservative schools choose to disaffiliate because of disagreement on political issues, the result of their action can only be the further liberalization of NSA policies...
...wrote her own good epitaph when she said: "I've done my small part to stamp out boredom in certain quarters of this world where it threatened to become rampant. If I accomplish little else, I shall consider my life justified by that one fact. Down with boredom...
...University of Wisconsin. Lawrence is already distinguished as a proving ground for university presidents: its own past heads include Brown's former president Henry Wriston, Harvard's president Nathan M. Pusey and Duke's president Douglas M. Knight. Now, as a small university, it hopes to accomplish far more than it could as a small college...
...really astute Filene's Basement shopper never purchases anything until it has reached the bottom plateau of markdowns. To accomplish this, one simply pushes the article to the bottom of the pile, the back of the rack, etc., and then watches the article until it has reached the desired price...