Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more astute politician would have sent some one around to sell the tickets rather than circulate such a potentially dangerous letter which could -- as happened in Eisenstadt's case -- reach the newspapers. But few people were upset by the tactics and it certainly is not the last time pressure will be brought to bear on people who deal financially with the city. Most of them expect to be touched a few times each year for testimonial dinner tickets before the elections. The surprising thing is that the dinners, which seem to be interminable affairs held in hot, smoky halls...
Smelly Mud. D-day in the Delta will bring the American fighting man a set of challenges unique even in Viet Nam. The principal fact of the Delta is water, water everywhere: drowning the great, flat expanses of paddyfields that reach to the horizon, running in brown, lazy fingers through 2,500 miles of navigable canals, tributaries and the Mekong itself. Only long, lush tree lines and the populous villages they shelter break the landscape's monotony, and it is in the tree lines and villages that the Viet Cong are most often found...
...Dash panel knobs must be so situated that a safety-belted driver can reach them; at the same time they must be out of impact range. Ignition keys, for instance, are to be moved out of possible contact with a driver's knee. Cigarette lighters and windshield-washer buttons are to be spaced away from headlight switches to prevent an accidental turn-off of headlights. All of this has already been done on '67 cars...
...Western operations, will become board chairman; Chicago Office Chief Charles S. Winston, 47, will be president; and New York-based William E. Chambers Jr., 47, will be operations-committee chairman. Cone himself will turn over his job as chairman of the executive committee to Carney. Though he will not reach the mandatory retirement age (65) for two years, Cone figures that it is simply "a hell of a lot brighter to get the new people in there and get the company used to them...
...When in doubt," Director John Ford (Stagecoach) once dryly counseled an aspiring young moviemaker, "make a western." Since Hollywood has always been filled with doubt, the screen for half a century has been filled with skies that podnuhs reach fer, dust that another Indian bites, ranches that folks are meanwhile back at, and any number of 'ems that get cut off at the pass. In short, the West has produced almost as many clichés as cattle, and the quality of a western depends largely on how well the director handles the stock...