Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completely revised ticketing and seating systems necessary to accomplish this end were announced yesterday by William J. Bingham '16, Director of the Harvard Athletic Association...
...this drowned world the Dutch water engineers prepared to rebuild the dikes and dry the land behind them. It was calculated that the work had to be completed before November 1945 or the damage to the island would be permanent. To accomplish it, the engineers started with four rowboats, three cars, eight horse-carts, twelve hand shovels, two wrenches, and a few hundred laborers. They succeeded...
...Bolt. Just what they hoped to accomplish-or how they would go about it-no one seemed to know. So far, only Alabama and Mississippi electors were pledged against Harry Truman. Other states might be persuaded to instruct their electors for the Thurmond-Wright ticket. But most office-holding Democrats would think twice before risking their federal and state patronage by aligning themselves with the irregulars. Said Arkansas' Laney pointedly: "Whatever is done must be done through and by the official Democratic organization in each respective state...
...voters agreed with New Jersey's ex-Governor Charles Edison, a Republican-turned-Democrat who announced his return to the G.O.P. with the cry: "Our governmental house is choked with litter and rubbish. We must have a complete change of management. The two-party system was evolved to accomplish just that...
Abdullah's Legion was the only major Arab force ready to move quickly and effectively. But it was easy to exaggerate what such a force could accomplish. And the Legion could not move far without a green light from the British, on whom it has depended for money, arms and leadership. One of Abdullah's visitors last week was Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, mild-mannered secretary general of the Arab League. He made no rash claims. Unshaven and weary, with his tarboosh pushed far back on his head, he admitted disconsolately that the Arabs were "the most inefficient...