Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mark Twain's classic rules for fiction, reflected Morris in a rare burst of pedantry, included: "Employ a simple and straightforward style," "Eschew surplus age," and "Accomplish something and arrive somewhere." Why, then, did English courses of every variety let James creep in through the trap door under the lectern? Why, on the other hand, did most courses on American literature ignore Thomas Wolfe...
...generation money here." says 38-year-old Anchorage Millionaire (real estate) Wally Hickel. who went to Alaska from Claflin, Kans. in 1940 with 37? in his pocket. "This is the crib. We're it. We're trying to make a Fifth Avenue out of the tundra, to accomplish in less than 50 years what the U.S. did in 100. Where else could you get that kind of mission, in a land that cozies you with beauty on one hand and swats you hard-if you're not looking sharp-with the other...
Auto-Adultery. Women can play this game too, says Rostand. Parthenogenesis -self fertilization, by techniques such as supplying an additional nucleus from the mother, would permit a woman to have a child that is not the child of any male. She would accomplish a sort of "auto-adultery...
Under the impact of these icy blasts from Moscow, many a European statesman began to express private doubts that a meeting would accomplish anything. At Copenhagen, Norway's Halvard Lange, once an all-out summiteer, now urged "extreme caution before we agree with the Russians on summit talks." West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano, speaking for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who at Paris had startled the world by urging a fresh approach to the Russians, flatly declared: "We should not alter our position unless the Russians have a substantial offer to make...
...teacher who could really draw before." Next, he roused the slow learners in his math course from their vegetable torpor. His method: "I told them that they had to work hard because in order for me to feel a dignity in my work I had to accomplish something, and that something was to teach them math. I said I was very interested in not wasting my time. At first they didn't believe me. They were accustomed to not doing their homework and having the teacher say, 'All right, that's a zero.' But I made...