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Word: accomplishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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What this amusing little concept means I suppose, is that the same republicans who one convention night cheered wildly and sincerely for Barry Goldwater could the next day embrace platform and a candidate that will accomplish as little of what Goldwater really wants as will the Democrats. The embrace is indeed brief and for most observers came away from the Chicago convention with a wrong impression that Goldwater, and Eisenhower or Nixon, was the centimental hero of the Republican (I hesitate to call them...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Goldwater Sees Conservative Consensus, Bowles Liberal 'Breakthrough' in 1960 | 10/7/1960 | See Source »

...There is a dangerous tendency to imagine that faith in a free society means that it will accomplish everything that is needful without effort or direction. Or at most, incantation is all that is required...

Author: By Peter J. Rothenberg, | Title: Goldwater Sees Conservative Consensus, Bowles Liberal 'Breakthrough' in 1960 | 10/7/1960 | See Source »

...teacher of philosophy in a Catholic seminary for the training of students for the priesthood, I have been teaching for years the possibility of synthetic biogenesis. The only thing that amazes us in this matter is that it is taking the scientists so long to accomplish it. As a reality, it will fit in perfectly with Thomistic philosophy and theology. This, I think, should take us off the hook we were never really on and leave Lois dangling there instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 12, 1960 | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

What does Khrushchev hope to accomplish at the U.N.? He himself made one of his purposes plain when he announced that the Western chiefs of state should meet him at the U.N. to achieve "a rapid solution" on disarmament. As part of his campaign to alienate Afro-Asian neutrals from the West. Khrushchev clearly plans to launch a new disarmament spectacular at the General Assembly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Back on the Job | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

Twelve times a Discoverer satellite had been fired, atop a two-stage Thor-Agena rocket, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.; twelve times it had failed to accomplish its total mission. To prepare the way for that day when a man can be shot into space and brought back alive. Discoverer's task was to control a satellite at will in its orbit and guide it back for recovery, undamaged, at a specific point on the earth's surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pretty Darned Good | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

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