Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kane and Marbury are retiring this year under an informal standing agreement that no member of the Corporation continue to serve past the age of seventy. Both will reach the age of retirement next summer...
Last week the Canadian government bowed to pressure and banned the killing of month-old seal pups in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The new policy means that the killing will now be restricted to seals over a month old. After one month the pups reach the "beater" stage, when they turn from white to brown and, leaving their ice floes, "beat" their way north to the Arctic. Hunters may use guns or arrows but may no longer club seals of any age to death...
...sorely confused when baseballs flew their way; time after time, the balls landed safely between them. In the tenth inning of the fourth game, their pitcher hit a Met base runner on the wrist while trying to throw the ball to first. That blunder allowed the winning run to reach the plate and put the Orioles behind, three games to one. In the final game the Oriole pitcher and first baseman conspired to commit two errors on a single play (shades of Marvelous!) to permit the last, poetic Met run to score. The Oriole manager, a stocky fellow named Weaver...
...wide crater that has been the resting place of Surveyor 3 ever since the unmanned probe soft-landed on the moon more than two years ago. Bean will descend first, attached to Conrad with an Alpine-style tether. If all goes well, the two men will try to reach the spidery spacecraft, examine and photograph it and then bring back some of its parts, including a 17-lb. TV camera. These cannibalized samples should provide spacecraft designers with invaluable information about the kind of wear they can expect in equipment at future lunar bases...
...plane to New York the next day, Marvin said: "There's an old adage in the business: Never shack up with anyone with lower billing than you. Now here I am, running out of shackups. But you know, when you reach 45 and are making enough money to retire, you still have to keep making the flicks. Yeah, you keep working at the masculinity thing, reconfirming it, always asking yourself, 'Hey, Jesus, am I losing...