Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...required to help help build a dam or to plan an economy; here aid must still depend on more mature professional personnel. On the other hand, the nations of Africa and Asia have quite enough unskilled labor, and a number of young Americans in an overseas "work camp" will accomplish nothing the underdeveloped countries couldn't do by themselves with native labor. A worthwhile youth service program must find its proper place somewhere between the sophisticated technical assistance it cannot provide and the unskilled labor that is not needed...
...argued that there should be a way other than military service for a young person to discharge his duty to his country. In the discussion since the election, however, everyone seems to be shying away from the concept of draft exemption. Some say that draft deferment would in effect accomplish the same thing, without raising a comparable political storm. Others report that students are willing to serve whether exemption is granted...
...Cornell number one man, Peter Moeller, reached the quarter-finals of the Invitational Intercollegiate Tournament in New York City over Christmas vacation, something no Crimson entry was able to accomplish. Peter Smith, Harvard's top player, could not be present at the competition, and Tony Lake, currently at number three, was retired in the third round, one before the quarters. Princeton junior Jimmy Zug defeated Lake. Zug plays number two for the Tigers...
Considering this natural resistance, constitutional reform is gathering surprisingly broad support both on Beacon Hill and among the electorate. But while politicians praise revision on the stump, its proponents disagree strongly how to accomplish it: through the General Court or a Constitutional Convention...
...first problem is to give these kids a worthwhile self-image of themselves. We want to make them feel that they have what it takes to go to college and be want they want to be. There are several devices we use to accomplish this. For one thing we use what we call 'hero and heroine worship': if someone from the school got into a good college or became a doctor or a lawyer, we tell the kids about it and put his picture in the classroom. Then the kids can say 'see, somebody from our school made...