Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perforce its own Right and its own Left." If a few mistakes have been made, blame it on youth. "The greatest scandal of the Cuban revolution is not the expropriation of the planters, but the accession to power of children. Since a revolution was necessary, circumstances bade the children accomplish it. Touring the islands, I have met, dare I say it, my sons. No one is totally qualified in Cuba to do what he does. But nobody worries, because qualification comes with success, disqualification with failure...
...profits elevenfold in a decade. Loyal to Nixon but leaning toward Rockefeller's liberal brand of Republicanism, "Chuck" Percy had to placate Rockefeller without angering the Old Guard, point forward into the 19605 without repudiating the Eisenhower Administration record of the 19505. Percy and Nixon hoped to accomplish all that with a brief platform that would state its aims in broad, general terms and leave the dangerous, controversial details of how and how much to be settled during the campaign. "We will not try to outpromise the Democrats," said Percy. G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston B. Morton openly voiced the hope...
Wartime Urgency. The Navy's Special Projects group was asked what it could accomplish with a supplemental $350 million. Can-Do Man Raborn took just a week of consultation with ship design and missile experts to produce an answer. If the Defense Department would settle for a 1,200-mile missile instead of the 1,500 mile that was in the works, he could give the fleet an operational system by 1960, a full five years earlier than planned...
...difficult to believe that there could be a sympathetic answer to such a calendar of horrors. Yet the Congo's representative, Thomas Kanza, 27, who is one of only 16 university graduates in his nation of 14 million, went far to accomplish it. Speaking with dignity and restraint, he noted that there were other victims besides the unfortunate Belgian women: the Congolese themselves...
...Aytona was canceling an order for machinery because he discovered that a relative of his own worked for the importer and was starting to crack down on illegal tobacco imports. Said he, giving away perhaps more than he intended: "I have a job to do, and I'll accomplish nothing by quitting. But until I've finished, I have to live with the devil...