Sentence:  But the task is beyond me because I hold it impossible to <WSD>compress</WSD> in a sentence or two the complicated and prodigious contributions Sam Rayburn has made as an individual , as a legislator , as a statesman and as a leader and conciliator , to the majestic progress of this Nation . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  make more compact by or as if by pressing