Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time-spinning maneuver, enabling habitual latecomers-notably including New York's Bobby Kennedy and Illinois' Charles Percy-to vote. Henceforth, this maneuver is out. Instead, Senate clerks will make a "slow call" of the roll, which, its proponents insist, will give laggards at least 15 minutes to reach the chamber...
Some 12 million Americans, one-sixth of the national labor force, now work in the public service. In the next seven years, this figure is expected to reach 15 million. Until relatively recent years, the widely held public point of view was that these government employees-whatever their number and whatever their classification-had no right to organize, let alone a right to strike. In 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt called public strikes "unthinkable and intolerable." United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther said in 1966 that "society cannot tolerate strikes that endanger the very survival of society," and proposed finding...
...such ancillary personnel rises too. Compared with one health assistant per doctor in 1900, the ratio today is 13 to 1, reports the University of Florida's Dr. Darrel J. Mase to the A.M.A.'s Council on Medical Education. By 1975 the needed ratio will probably reach 25 to 1. Health may then employ 6,000,000 people, and constitute the nation's biggest industry...
...time you reach "Party at Lil's Place" at the State, the supply of adjectives (but not exclamation points) has apparently been exhausted. After such feeble attempts as "a scathing film of a girl without morals!" the poster-painter throws up his brush with "Her desire was always there...
...Yardlings put the game out of reach in the first frame as they scored five times. DeMichele registered twice. Northeastern's lone score of the game came...