Word: reach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the U.S. wanted them to fight the ground war if it came. If Cannon thought he was stating the case for the Air Force over their naval competitors, he was mistaken. The Air Force's Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg was indeed confident that his airmen could reach almost anywhere with their intercontinental B-36 bombers, starting from U.S. bases. But no responsible airman claimed that the Air Force could win a war without the naval ships and planes to keep command of the seas and an army to finish the job by invasion...
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Also I was surprised ... at the remark: "Shouted Playwright Clifford Odets." I know Mr. Odets, and one thing which impressed me was his quiet manner of speaking; I often had to reach to hear what...
...from unanimous. Ernst Reuter, Berlin's hard-hitting Socialist mayor, just back from a trip to the U.S., said the agreement was "unbelievably better than anything we had expected after all those months." Christian Democrat Konrad Adenauer, president of the Bonn council, warned that "failure to reach agreement [at Bonn] would be a fiasco for the democratic idea and a catastrophe...
...outgrowth of the broadcast last year at Eastern Sprints Championship by two students, Gerard H. Fisher '49 and James T. Otis '45. At that time, they followed the races with a walkie-talkie system which, though clear enough to those who could hear it, was too feeble to reach most of the crowd...