Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aeronautical experts recommended him to the Brazilian government, which was seeking a handful of U.S. advisers to help build up Brazil's then primitive civil and military air fleets. Says Jones: "When they began asking me how to get a better use of their resource in order to accomplish their total national objective, I knew that I wanted the job." With his new bride, Ruth-the daughter of onetime Screen Idol Conrad Nagel-Jones flew down to Rio. where, at 27, he helped to write budgets and civil air codes, chose airport locations, taught pilots, and primed local industries...
...city and defend it to the death. In September 1944, Britain's Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery urged "one really powerful and full-blooded thrust toward Berlin" through northern Germany. "Clearly, Berlin is the main prize," Ike answered. He added that a slower, "broad front" advance would better accomplish the Allies' main object: destroying Germany's military strength. By moving en masse, the AEF would thus be able to seize the industrial heart of Germany (the Ruhr) before striking at its political heart (Berlin...
...deficit, times are getting better: Stravinsky heard the singers in Los Angeles in 1959, was so impressed that he conducted them in his Les Noces and Symphony of Psalms. Columbia will soon issue a Gregg Smith album. As the group's popularity grows, Conductor Smith thinks it will accomplish his most cherished ambition: to popularize modern music through "the inherent logic of the human voice...
...arrangements effectively violated the Negroes' "constitutionally protected rights," enjoined county officials from accepting further grants for the foundation so long as the county refused to provide public schools. "We do not hold these ordinances are facially unlawful," he said. "We only hold they become unlawful when used to accomplish an unlawful...
Johnson is dismayed by the form that Canadian nationalist sentiment has recently taken, because it appeals to "the most undesirable features of the Canadian character. In these I include not only the mean and underhanded anti-Americanism which serves many Canadians as an excuse for their failure to accomplish anything worthy of genuine national pride, but also the small-town pettiness of outlook that is the shadow side of many Canadian virtues. Far from contributing to the growth of a stronger, more independent nation, Canadian nationalism has been diverting Canada into a narrow and garbage-cluttered...