Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chairman of National Steel, has popped up both at the White House in Washington and at Augusta, Ga. to repeat the same kind of talk that launched the disastrous Humphrey budget flap of last spring. Humphrey is urging the President to increase military expenditures, cut taxes, balance the budget, accomplish all these by limiting such "junk" items as foreign aid, health and welfare, farm subsidies and veterans' benefits. Humphrey's frequent visits are beginning to wear on White House aides. Cracked one Ike assistant to Humphrey: "Who's going to ram your plan through the Democratic Congress...
...lack of that leadership with Ike's reduced work schedule, and last week's stroke dashed their hopes that Ike was recovering his earlier vigor. "The leadership of the West," lamented De Volkskrant of Amsterdam, "is in the hands of a great but sick man who cannot accomplish much more than the purely representative duties of his office." Said a member of Germany's Bundestag: "Can a man who is fighting frailty of body avoid frailty of leadership...
...best humorous writing turns on a man's well-intentioned efforts to accomplish something-from assembling a do-it-yourself barbecue pit to catching a taxi in a downpour-and the fun lies in his frustration. Purdy uses much the same theme, but his purpose is to reveal the horror underlying the humor. The father who gets kicked in the groin has been trying to make up to his small son for his orphaned state. The husband and wife who belabor each other seem right off the burlesque stage, but the story's aim is to expose...
Fact is there is far from complete agreement on just what the summit leaders conference should accomplish, or how NATO should be changed. West Germany and Italy want each country to confer with its NATO allies before taking any major decisions. Their notion is to restrain such unhappy ventures as France and Britain's sally into Suez. France, which considers that the U.S. and British interfered in the Algerian war by sending arms to Tunisia and is angry about it, will demand just the opposite-hands off at least, loyal support at best, on policies which the individual country...
After encountering some wary refusals to serve, President Eisenhower last week named the six members of a bipartisan Civil Rights Commission created by this year's Civil Rights Act. Since the commission is a new instrument of Government, no one dared predict just how much it could accomplish, but almost everyone agreed that Ike had staffed it with earnest and judicially minded men. ¶ Commission chairman: former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stanley F. Reed, 72, who retired last February. Kentuckian Reed concurred in the Supreme Court school-desegregation decision of 1954, wrote the majority opinion that outlawed the Southern...