Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were only a few plays for the quarterback to choose from. The flying wedge was in its heyday, there being only one way to stop it. To accomplish this the defensive teams would have to perform the highly dangerous maneuver of lying flat on the ground and trying to trip up the onrushing wedge. If they succeeded, there would be a great heap of about twenty men in the line of scrimmage, and no yards gained...
Like a Vishinsky speech, I Want to Be Like Stalin attempts to build one myth about Russia and another about the world outside. To accomplish this, history is arbitrarily distorted (in 1934, a three-man committee of Stalin, Kirov, and Zhdanov saw to the revision of all history textbooks). Thus, Soviet schoolchildren are taught: during "the Great Patriotic War [World War II] . . . we proved to be the only power capable, not only of halting the dark surge of fascism, but also of inflicting on it a decisive and fatal defeat...
Terming the present food crisis "more serious than generally pictured," Zimmerman stated that meatless Tuesdays and eggless and poultryless Thursdays would accomplish little in the way of grain conservation, since most American house-holds buy their provisions days in advance of consumption...
...about them. Ever since the abolition of OPA, Harry Truman had tried to solve the price-wage question by issuing statements-an expedient sometimes called "government by incantation." Soon Harry Truman might have to take some action-although with Congress away from Washington, there might be little he could accomplish...
...should discover it. Whether it is God's intention to use this means to bring this world to an end, or to lead it into a new era of creativity, it is impossible for us to say. ... But we can say that whatever God intends He will accomplish, and that His purposes are good and righteous altogether...