Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Predicting further that the movement toward unity of the Protestant churches will receive even more impetus after the war, he stated that this tendency is much stronger today than it was twenty years ago and that it will accomplish something concrete...
Peace by Force. As flag secretary to Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., Commander Stassen had seen what the power of modern ships and planes and weapons can accomplish. Now he called for the U.S. "to remain strong on land, at sea and in the air," so that the nation may join with Russia, Great Britain, China, France and the other United Nations in furnishing a worldwide police power...
Nimitz reached for his pen, gripped it in a hand gnarled by rheumatism (from submarine service a quarter of a century ago), and wrote in a neat, upright hand: "This operation has long been planned, and the opportunity to accomplish it fulfills the deeply cherished desire of every officer and man of the Pacific Fleet...
...fighters have yet encountered. Last week U.S. night fighter pilots based in France told a strange story of balls of fire which for more than a month have been following their planes at night over Germany.* No one seemed to know what, if anything, the fireballs were supposed to accomplish. Pilots, guessing that it was a new psychological weapon, named it the "foo-fighter...
...wounded badly and near death, is placed in a ward with four congenial and humor-loving soldiers. The other men are under orders to break down the reserve of the Scot and make him "belong" before his death, and the efforts of the four soldiers and their nurse to accomplish this task over the mountainous barrier of the Scotchman's intrespective soul make a penetratingly effective plot...