Word: accomplishing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Christmas, Jimmy asked his mother for the complete works of Shakespeare, and we memorized some Shakespeare. It was a very fulfilling life. I could never sit and drink coffee and talk about babies and clothes." Even their family vacations reflected the meticulous Carter planning and the need to accomplish worthwhile goals. "When we decided to take a month's trip to Mexico, we got the Spanish book and tapes and really studied. We worked hours and hours-and when we went, we stopped in places where no English was spoken, so we had to use our Spanish...
...love more than any he had ever held, is being taken away. For fear of hurting someone, he refused to talk about what he might have done to win the election. But he was willing to talk at length about the tasks that he wishes he had time to accomplish and his thoughts on the nation's future. Excerpts...
...times confirm Carter's memories of love and challenge, of parents who were "there" in fact and in caring insistence that there were works to be done. By age twelve, Son Jimmy had learned to list among "healthy mental habits" this first one: "the habit of expecting to accomplish what you attempt." By 52, he and his folks were finding running for President-with all its frustrations-"the most gratifying, exciting thing we've ever done." Like F.D.R. and H.S.T. and J.F.K., Carter discovered, as child and man, that he could count on sustaining memories as he reached...
When Morton Halperin first went to court three years ago, he had no idea that he would eventually accomplish what no private citizen ever had-a successful suit for damages caused by the official acts of a U.S. President. But Halperin, then 35, a Yale-trained former staffer on the National Security Council, was furious at learning that the FBI had tapped his telephone. He filed suit against the half-dozen top officials whom he felt had to be held responsible. He even sued the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. Last week Morton Halperin won a resounding victory that could...
...exchange markets at the first sign of economic trouble. Callaghan, like many other Prime Ministers before him, wants to convert these volatile short-term deposits to long-term debts; precisely how this will be done and what kind of financial help the U.S. and West Germany will extend to accomplish it remain to be negotiated...