Word: attaining
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...career in the public eye more difficult than gaining the title. Rosemary LaPlanche (1941) is not much remembered today, though she made 84 movies, including Strangler of the Swamp and Devil Bat's Daughter. Lee Meriwether (1955) has had roles enough, but her name has failed to attain the tip of the national tongue. Mary Ann Mobley (1959) made those Elvis Presley films, and has had trouble shaking the image ever since. Mobley's runner-up, Anita Bryant, is another story altogether...
...called pacification law was the third attempt by the military to impose national amnesia. Last November it disingenuously urged Argentines to show "greatness of spirit" so as to "attain national unity." Translation: the next civilian government should refrain from investigating military crimes. That clumsy ploy was ridiculed into oblivion. Last April the junta tried again, publishing a "final document" in which it simply declared that those who disappeared were legally and administratively dead. Explaining that any "excesses" committed by the government were purely in the line of duty, the government did not bother even to account for individual cases. Again...
...that he was morally offended by disobedience to the law. As Jackson complained in 1982, in what turned out to be his last presidential address, "Many of our young people have been left with the notion that the highest values within the political and economic struggle can be attained primarily through protest, pickets, boycotts and civil disobedience. I admit with you that it is better to react peacefully against the evil forces of our system than to seek to attain by force and violence the rights to which we are entitled...
Your article on Castro's prisons summarizes quite well some of the terrible atrocities committed by the Cuban dictator and his regime. However, it is only a glimpse of the ruthless methods being applied by Communist rulers around the world to attain and maintain their power. Let us be aware of what is occurring to mankind and start doing something about...
...plan for peace in the Middle East. As part of that initiative, Reagan proposed a temporary U.S. military presence in Lebanon, along with contingents from other Western countries, until Lebanon's government managed to establish its authority throughout the ravaged land. That goal is proving more difficult to attain than the Administration had foreseen, as religious factions renew their ancient feuds with growing ferocity...