Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something is told to the Emperor, it automatically becomes irrevocable fact; it has happened. Unfortunately General Ma was still very much alive. Recently, the Japanese discovered this, and last week a confused force of little men surged out across the snow-swept, desolate plains of Ordos with orders to accomplish what every one of them knew - as a most Im perial fact - to have been accomplished long ago: kill Giant Horse...
...furloughs are given, French children born in 1940 may number only some 450,000. Le Populaire asked: "Will the duration of this furlough be the same for all? A captain gets two or three rations, a colonel gets more. Will officers have a longer leave? If a soldier can accomplish his work in four days, will it be considered that his colonel must expend more effort...
...Later, the snakes emerged above ground and fought their way back to 'respectability.' To help accomplish this, they had to invent one substitute after another within the eye, to take the place of the lost lizard-eye features. The fact that the snake eye is such a bunch of ersatz thus sheds light, for the first time, upon the habits and history of the first serpents...