Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tung and his military leaders must realize by now that they cannot push the Eighth Army into the sea. What does the enemy expect to accomplish? China's only hope seemed to be that the U.S.-which can hold on in Korea but cannot decisively defeat the enemy there-would weary of the struggle...
Thus Juan Peron exhibited one of the qualities that distinguish him from most other dictators. Argentina's lawfully elected President is passionately addicted to legalising he will go to any lengths, however ludicrous, to accomplish his ends in a "legal" way. As a result, his five-year regime has been marked by surprisingly little rough stuff; his formula has been approximately 90% cloak and 10% dagger...
...Evita lives as one convinced that her husband's regime is a new and revolutionary force in the world. "I have dedicated myself fanatically to Perón and to Perón's ideals," she says. "Without fanaticism one cannot accomplish anything." In public speeches she has coupled her husband's name with the name of Napoleon and Alexander the Great. Last fortnight, while he stood beaming at her side, she compared him, not unfavorably, with Jesus Christ...
...teaching (and working at Columbia University on her Ph. D. thesis in anthropology, to be published by Mac-millan). She would like to do a whole "dance-play," has hopes of getting such a play produced on Broadway next year. With "actors trained by me," she would try to accomplish a threefold ambition: "To speak as an individual, to portray the spirit of Africa, and to do it through the African dance idiom...
...tough chemical customer. Its molecules are built around the steroid nucleus" (TIME, Jan. 29) which has three six-atom carbon rings and one five-atom ring in the proper spatial arrangement. To build such a molecule from scratch was considered so difficult that few chemists ever hoped to accomplish...