Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rights in Cincinnati, where she is an officer of the local chapter of the National Organization of Women. She was elected as an Ohio delegate in May. She takes the McGovern phenomenon calmly, seeing it neither as a vindication of "the system" or its last chance to accomplish good. "The system," she says, "will be around for a long time. It's a dynamic, always changing thing. What's happening now is that the McGovern people have made the changes...
...about a year. More than that, they would add up to whole lifetimes for many of the young, who now die or are killed prematurely. Certainly the expansion of life is well within the reach of a people who like to think that they can accomplish anything they set out to do-and it is well worth setting as a national goal...
Like Ruby, Bremer insinuated himself into the crowd surrounding his victim and, with no chance of escape, boldly broke through to accomplish his grim deed before the TV cameras. The difference is that Bremer, a failure at almost everything he tried, was unsuccessful even as an assassin...
...Johnny-come-late-ly overtones, his commitment to the state runs deep. He went there eight years ago as a poverty-program worker. After toiling for two years in Emmons, a creek-bed hollow five miles from the nearest road, he decided that "politics was the only way to accomplish anything in West Virginia," where 30% of the people are considered poor. In 1966, he won a race for the state legislature by a record margin and two years later was elected secretary of state. Last week in the West Virginia primary, liberal Democrat Rockefeller won the party...
What could they say? What do we say? Our machines have outraced our minds, and we are unable to comprehend the evil that our tools accomplish. It is easy to react to the ugliness close at hand. It is easy to share the dismay of the college president surveying the wreckage of his occupied office. But the greater horror eludes us. The Jews were slaughtered nearby, the Vietnamese are killed thousands of miles away: the lesson is the same. With a bit of government cosmetics, suffering can be forgotten if it is kept at arm's length. As evil becomes...