Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down by Negro sniper fire, the APC rumbled up and began blazing away with its .30-cal. guns; unknown to the mob, they were loaded with blanks. The police got away. Simultaneously, Guardsmen and police patrols coursed through the streets-often behind fixed bayonets-picking up every Negro in reach. Black-Power Playwright LeRoi Jones, 32, was snatched from a Volkswagen with two loaded .32-cal. pistols in his pockets. Jones, who once urged Negroes to handle white men by smashing their "jelly white faces," ended up beat-up himself: a blunt weapon split his scalp, and he required seven...
...blind challenge of fate is different from the investor's bet on the future. Still, the gambler and the man who "plays" the stock market have certain things in common: a desire to make money without working for it in the ordinary sense, and a desire to reach beyond the monotony of life by deliberately embracing the unpredictable. Some see gambling as a cosmic, even a spiritual principle: "I think luck as well as freedom must be counted in the salvation of man as well as in the fall," says Albert Hammond, former philosophy professor at Johns Hopkins...
...ground-to-air missiles that, along with their computers, guidance equipment and fueling systems, fell into Israeli hands at an Egyptian base near the Suez Canal. Though the U.S. has already deduced a great deal about SAM's capabilities (it can fly at 2,600 m.p.h. and reach 60,000 feet) and limitations (it cannot execute sharp turns) from intelligence reports and from its performance in North Viet Nam, close study of the Sinai SAMs will give scientists invaluable information. Israel has already passed on to the U.S. some of its data about the captured SAMs...
...reason U.S. amateur tennis is in such parlous shape is that talent too often goes unrewarded. Puerto Rico's Charles Pasarell, for example, has won two straight U.S. Indoor championships and was the only American even to reach the men's quarterfinals at Wimbledon-yet he was passed over for the 1967 Davis Cup team. Then there is Billie Jean Moffitt King...
Johnson was presumably remembering the time of the Watts riots when he tried to reach Katzenbach, then the Attorney General, only to learn that he was weekending on the Vineyard. Then he called for McNamara-and he was on the Vineyard too, a guest of the Katzenbachs. In needling Katzenbach, L.B.J., who likes to keep his aides close at hand, was rubbing salt into old saddle sores-Katzenbach's longest "vacation" since coming to government has been four days...