Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked for Exile Trotsky right up to the time of their arrests. They were accused of attempting to deliver various parts of the Soviet Union to foreign states. In this no Russian helped them, said the indictment, for they relied "exclusively upon the armed forces of foreign aggressors to accomplish their...
...second type of navy in 1776 was that which the states organized. Except for rendering guard service to merchantmen, it did little more than the continental navy. It took the privateers, the third kind, to accomplish something. With two thousand ships, mostly from Massachusetts, commissioned by Congress, the privateers were almost as essential to the American cause as the French ships at Yorktown. Out of them the Cabots and Eliots made their fortunes, since the owners kept half of all prize money and divided the rest among the captain and crew. Besides being a more lucrative business than fighting...
...anxious for a moment about our fate because we knew that our mighty fatherland which sent forth its sons would never desert them. The warm care and attention of the party and government of dear Comrade Stalin, of the whole Soviet people, uninterruptedly maintained in us the conviction to accomplish successfully all our work...
Some will feel that such passages accomplish, or at least adumbrate the sea-change implicit in Poet Pound's thematic material. Others will feel that they are merely adept professional steals from worn-out bags of poetic tricks-in this instance ancient Chinese-exquisitely lighted and beautifully shaped, like every drop of water that ever pleased a duck, and ran right off his back. Opinions pro or opinions con, Poet Pound has 49 Cantos still to go before he circumnavigates to judgment...
...believe that the Congress will produce a high caliber of debate and a spirited exchange of opinion comparable to those of its models at Oxford and Yale. The model Constitutional Convention of last year and the Model League of Nations sessions have shown that this type of body can accomplish worthwhile results...