Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What is the objective?" barked Hodgson. "To remove the Franco regime. But does the Polish delegate really think severance of diplomatic relations is going to accomplish that objective? Is the Soviet delegate really serious? . . . Action such as that is likely to strengthen Franco...
...task yet lies before the United Nations that time and tireless effort cannot accomplish. Time, however, is grudgingly granted by a people curiously expectant of modern miracles. The impatient perfectionist, continually frustrated by examples of power politics, cannot long avoid cynicism. He counts for naught the progress made when the family of nations agreed to bring their haggling within the confines of the council chamber. Exhorting the deadliness of the atomic bomb, he summons fear to promote his crusade for "real" world government...
Einstein & Venus. Although many scientists pointed out that the Belmar technique was too crude at present to drag much new information down from space, they speculated happily on what it might accomplish in the future...
...more prepared to build 2.9 million houses a year than it was prepared in 1940 to build 50,000 planes a year. A national effort was required to accomplish the plane program, and the same will obviously be required for housing. As yet, the effort has not got under way. The required size of the effort has not even been recognized...
Priestley-now less & less a novelist, and more & more a pamphleteer-also admits that he sheds no tears for individual enterprise. "Modern man is essentially a communal and cooperating man. . . . We have no Leonardo da Vinci or Shakespeare. But we accomplish what would seem miracles to our forefathers ... by our new pooling of knowledge and our superb teamwork. When the American O.W.I. . . . showed us the film they had made about [TVA] . . . I felt as deeply moved as I would have been by a noble work...