Word: task
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MacArthur reportedly favored some kind of U.S. action to support Formosa, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff seemed convinced that the move was neither an acceptable risk nor practically possible. In fact, if Senator Smith was to get anywhere with his suggestion for action, his first and most difficult task would be to convince the military, which seemed as ready as the diplomats to go on waiting for the dust to settle, no matter what was buried under...
...paper for two years after Bartok's death, his executor handed them over to Bartok's close friend and fellow composer Tibor Serly, who had earlier spent four months of skull-cracking labor trying to decipher the piece. Serly later said: "No man ever had such a task in his life . . . In order to finish this work as Bartok would have finished it, I had to put myself in a dead man's mind." Serly completed the score for viola (after rejecting the notion of adapting it for the more popular cello) and worked out the full...
...watching and suitable remedial action is possible and lies within the province of the President's Economic Council and the Joint Committee of Congress. It remains to be seen whether those bodies will act on the basis of short-sighted, political expediency or will address themselves to the serious task assigned to them...
...translators' problem will come later, Pfeiffer continued. At present the great task is to unroll the manuscript without destroying it. The job has been turned over to Rutherford J. Gettens, the Museum's Chief of Technical Research, who is an expert on antiquities and their preservation...
...totality of human life than it is entitled to. Instead of serving, it dominates; instead of subordinating itself, it wants to subordinate the whole of life; that is why it has, in part, dehumanizing effects ... It is not from science that we have to learn what is the task of man and what is the meaning of his existence. These are questions which lie outside the range of science, in the sphere of faith...