Word: attainability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prevent this water from becoming a breeding place for mosquitoes? Yeah, fish-but not only mosquito fish, but other varieties of tropical fish that breed like mad, and then we sell the progeny to fish lovers. Now we are unique, not because of the water, but because we attain mosquito control at a profit...
Before a mass meeting in Alexandria, El Nahas Pasha cried, "The colonizers [Great Britain] must know that Egypt's patience is exhausted, and that she will attain her rights, whatever the obstacles." He chose the week of the i sth anniversary of the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936 (which still has five years to run) to denounce it. It "must be canceled and will be, in a very short time," he said, and the crowd cheered wildly. Al Midoa, weekly newspaper of Nahas Pasha's Wafdist Party, roared: "We do not believe that the Egyptian nation is less...
Once he had summed up his credo: "Life is action. Sport, as well as work, is contention. All nature strives and vies, not to attain tranquillity but a more effective degree of activity. Nothing that is alive and vigorous is tranquil-not the birds nor the beasts nor the poor fish nor human beings nor nations. Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something which is not tranquil...
Blinking in the harsh sun, Harriman said: "I am not a mediator. I came here to see whether amicable discussions can attain the objectives both Iran and Great Britain desire. I shall stay as long as I can be useful...
...difficulties of integrating Western Europe . . . appear staggering to those who live by ritual. But great majorities in Europe . . . deserve, at the very least, a fair chance to work together . . . Europe cannot attain the towering material stature possible to its peoples' skills and spirit so long as it is divided by patchwork territorial fences. They foster localized, instead of common, interest...