Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several even more out-of-tune voices harmonized them as best they could. Cups of hot chocolate appeared out of somewhere, and people sipped at them, huddled together in the dark and feeling proud, even exuberant over what they had achieved the night before--and for what they would accomplish the following...
...years ago, when curiosity attracted me to an introductory lecture describing the program, two things stuck in my mind. One was the central objective, to develop the full potential of the individual, a reasonable goal. The other was the description of the simple, effortless technique that was supposed to accomplish this. The description of the thinking process and how transcending it could produce positive results on all levels of life was new to me, and I had little basis on which to judge its plausibility. However, the word "effortless" was especially meaningful...
...human potential that I have elaborated above has made the direct subjective means of gaining knowledge of the physical world more acceptable to scientists than it was. The careful study of the parallels between the results of materialistic science and the results of direct subjective experience may yet accomplish the long-sought synthesis of intellectual knowledge and direct experience...
...problem for Harvard boils down to the fact that Cornell has virtually no weaknesses. Keying on the stars, like attackman Tommy Marino or middies Bob Henrickson and Craig Jaeger, would accomplish little, since the whole Big Red lineup is impressive...
...change does not come easily, especially when religious issues are concerned. And yet it must come, because only a liberated church can accomplish Christ's mission to help build a liberated Africa--an Africa that is free, reconciled and united in its resolve never to be yoked again to any new forms of slavery...