Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what Harry Truman intended to accomplish, the order had been given too late. A statement by MacArthur, drawn with the obvious intention of making military sense out of the Administration's strange, vacillating policy on Formosa, had already been sent to press in the U.S. That practical fact had made the statement public property, and within a few hours it had been published across the land...
...Through our members we hope to spread the word of our new activity and in time accomplish a forceful organization of men who will enjoy as an active hobby getting in touch with their local schoolboy athletes, helping them know of Harvard's interest in them, get them to come to Harvard, follow their progress at Harvard and take a 'fatherly' pride in having done well by the boy and by Harvard...
...Democratic Party's Big Dream. Although the Democrats had tacitly endorsed the 80th's switch to flexible price supports, the party turned on it in the campaign and yelled that the Republicans were trying to slice the farmer's income. Thus did Harry Truman accomplish the near-impossible, the blending of the labor vote with the farm vote. The triumphant Democrats thought giddily of the future: Why not make the farmer-labor marriage permanent...
...midst of the commotion, a sharp and sinister voice detailed what the Communists were trying to accomplish with their renewed campaign of hate. Minister of People's Culture Joseph Revai, Hungarian Politbureau member, made it clear in a speech to the Communist Central Committee that the remaining rights of the Catholic Church in Hungary must be broken...
Mayer first consulted microclimatologists, who study climate in specific areas; with their help he hopes to achieve what Major l'Enfant failed to accomplish in Washington-an arrangement of buildings that will catch any stray breeze...