Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they accomplish their mission, the three men assigned to pilot Columbia and Eagle to the moon will rank with history's most illustrious explorers. Yet each realizes that the privilege?and the peril?of making man's first lunar landing belongs to them only by an unlikely combination of luck and circumstance. Edwin ("Buzz") Aldrin, 39, who will steer the lunar module to the surface of the moon, puts it this way: "We've been given a tremendous responsibility by the twists and turns of fate...
Maybe so, but those sins are yielding notably handsome wages for banks. Reports last week of banks' first-half earnings emphasize that, whatever else they accomplish, high interest rates produce high profits. Compared with the first half of 1968, net operating earnings at Manhattan's Manufacturers Hanover Corp., parent of the fourth biggest bank in the nation, rose 21% to $40 million...
...crucifixion provides another prime example of Mr. Mayer's stagecraft of restoration. The use of a grand, reflective aluminum cruxifix--totally unrustic and aggressively mechanical--renews one's sense of horror in an etiolated atrocity. No measure of guignol, no matter how richly sanguinary, no matter how grande could accomplish this alone...
True Grit is a particularly obnoxious piece of hack-work about the attempt of a fourteen-year-old girl (Kim Darby) to take revenge upon "a piece of white trash" for the murder of her father. To accomplish this she buys the services of a murderous U.S. marshal (John Wayne) and is forced to accept those of a young Texas Ranger (Glenn Campbell) who has offered the marshal a some what better for the same...
...some women, merely appearing neatly dressed for breakfast was enough to start their tokens; patients who had spent all day in a rocking chair were paid to get up and observe a job being done, then paid a little more for helping to accomplish it, and then obliged to pay rent for the chair. Withdrawn patients were paid for speaking to others...