Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sunday night, under the light of a hazy full moon, the Communist enemy launched his big try for victory in Korea. For him, victory meant knocking the U.N. eagle, that had been gnawing at his manpower vitals, entirely off the South Korean perch. If he could accomplish that, hundreds of thousands of lives and mountains of equipment and supplies would be, in his view, well spent...
Senator James H. Duff, Republican of Pennsylvania: "If dismissal was the only way to accomplish unity, then it had to be done ... To permit a continuous dispute as to authority and military policy at this most critical juncture in our history is unthinkable...
Then, costumed summer and winter in seersucker suits and tennis shoes, he hustled around looking for some reality. He took up yoga, and did deep-breathing exercises. He went south for a while to accomplish reforms, but gave it up. He returned to New York, lived in a "whitecollar flophouse" on West 54th Street, and said he was going to get a job. If not, would he take money from relatives? "Certainly not," he said. "I'll go on relief...
This statement is quite close to Matthew Vassar's conception of Vassar as an "institution which shall accomplish for young women what our colleges are accomplishing for young...
...last gone over to conservatism ; the defending editor is always able to point out an escape clause somewhere in his leader. Among the half dozen or so Conservative M.P.s I lunched with at one time or another, I never heard one talk about what the Tories would accomplish, or indeed sound as if he really believed his party was much fitter to govern than the Socialists. It is principally Winston Churchill, still bitter at his 1945 defeat, who thirsts for office. And he is getting older, growing hard of hearing and remote. A Conservative M.P. told me that he doubts...