Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jackson's clout in the Senate that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for a time seemed to be negotiating with two sovereign powers-the Kremlin and Jackson. When the Russians appeared to give in to the demand, he boasted that he had demonstrated "what tough bargaining can accomplish...
...prison setting often severely restricts the amount of learning or emotional development anyone can accomplish. When an inmate has received drugs shortly before a tutoring session he cannot concentrate. The anxiety of prison life overwhelms many prisoners; it is virtually impossible to learn if you can't relax...
When he quotes Edmund Wilson's definition of the man of letters--"one who can accomplish any literary task that happens to come his way"--Gill describes himself as well. He is our best drama critic, and he arrived at that position only lately, having proved himself at profiles and obituaries, fiction and all manner of criticism. When he writes the autobiography that shines through the cracks in this book, he will need to put The New Yorker aside for a time...
Whodunits like The Third Man are valuable for what the writer and director manage to accomplish despite their primary goal of creating suspense. The average whodunit (and the Orson Welles festival has its share of those) is almost by definition something you'd never want to see twice--or at least not until you'd forgotten it. But the first time around, anyway, such films may warrant taking out your pipe and putting on you deerstalker...
...inability to be able to say this has to be done and expect it to accomplish overnight success. That isn't the way it works, either in foreign policy or domestic policy. It is a slow, constructive, hard-working process...