Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over Canada, police were so busy rounding up deserters* that, in London, Ont., a provincial police official remarked: "The nearest approach man's ingenuity has made to perpetual motion is the process of draftees going A.W.O.L., being picked up by police and put back in barracks, to go A.W.O.L. again...
...nods (mind) and sphere. Said he: "The noösphere is a new geological phenomenon on our planet. In it for the first time man becomes a large-scale geological force.... Wider and wider creative possibilities open before him. It may be that the generation of our grandchildren will approach their blossoming. . . . Fairy-tale dreams appear possible in the future; man is striving to emerge beyond the boundaries of his planet into cosmic space. And he probably will...
...stage is set, Boston's top band contracted, and the Parker House Roof bedecked for the swellest dance of 1946. Harry Magnuson has tickets available now for tomorrow's big event celebrating the approach of spring leave and held in honor of the new midshipman class. Everyone and his best date will be on hand, as well as members of the faculty and command, to show the middles what lies on the other side of those case books. See you there...
...hands off note recently from an irate Boston mother. In spite of Stan's letter enclosing his distinction marks and quartile rating, it seems that her 14-year-old daughter is still too young for his attentions. But Stan never says die. He's currently working on that "schoolboy" approach...
...length, some 7,000 miles out of Panama, they approach and learn their target-the small, elegant triangle of Marcus Island. The night before their first experience of combat-a night crowded with taciturn faces, with letters home, with prayers and last Communions, with the subdued, systematic turmoil of spotting the deck, with athletes' breakfasts served by artificial light, and finally with just waiting-is one of the most moving sequences in the film...