Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...initial speech, Seymour told the Council that it had "a terrific opportunity" to permanently establish itself as "an important force in Harvard College." He said the Council would have to strengthen its ties with the House committees and the Masters if it intended to accomplish...
Lake Mead Rancheros claims that it is now willing to change its advertising. But it will probably take federal intervention to accomplish lasting reforms (only five state laws require "full disclosure" to purchasers about the state of the property) because of the difficulty in determining jurisdiction when promoters are careful to sell their land outside the state in which it sits...
...distinguished speaker used ancient techniques to win what even he knew to be a hostile audience, but his tools were too crude and prosaic to accomplish the job. To demonstrate his own friendliness, he grandly asked--nay, pleaded--that everyone visit his great state and see the unparalleled wonders of its progress. To identify his cause with the heritage of his listeners he solemnly invoked irrelevant parts of Massachusetts' history. He threw in the names of Jefferson, Webster, Washington and others, not in the context of sentences, but as stark monuments to the Americanism of his views. He intoned them...
...even as they criticize, these clerics note that since the church-going boom ended, the nation's great religious bodies have begun to face up to realities. Many pastors believe that their churches will be more relevant, and accomplish more good, with a committed core of true believers. "The church is moving inward," says Dr. Blake Smith, pastor of Austin's University Baptist Church. "There are a great many experiments, little trailblazers, to rediscover the reality that lies beneath the outward structure...
...specializes in cost cutting, he replaces Clark R. Gamble, 69, who will continue as chairman. The stickiest problem Shomaker faces is an antitrust ruling requiring Brown to sell the G. R. Kinney Corp., a 360 shoe-store chain that Brown acquired in 1956. Brown wants three years to accomplish the unstitching, but the trustbusters are pushing for a six-month deadline...