Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dock were five Frenchmen-a journalist, two policemen and two secret agents-and one small-time Moroccan police operative. All were charged with either participation or complicity in the kidnaping. The two most wanted men were out of reach of French law. They were Morocco's Interior Minister Brigadier General Mohamed Oufkir and his deputy for secret-police matters, Ahmed Dlimi. Witnesses named them as the Moroccans who had met Ben Barka at the villa. King Hassan flatly refused to hand them over for trial. In fact, he had been working feverishly behind the scenes to block the proceedings...
...does Seymour catch the ball? "It all depends on how high it is. But I like to get the ball in close to my body and clamp on it"-one hand on top of the ball, the other underneath. Where does Jim prefer the pass to reach him? "Anywhere but low. I don't like to catch it down low, because my face mask hinders me." How does Seymour handle the defensive man guarding him? "The first thing I do is go out and test him. If he isn't going to back up, I run right...
...Colorado secretary of state. Actually, says Campbell Soup President W. B. Murphy, chairman of the prestigious Business Council, "the housewife is wrong. The food store is a handy goat." Supermarkets average a mere 1¼% profit on their sales. The real trouble lies beyond the retailer's reach...
Washington's anti-poverty programs are all coordinated through the United Planning Organization, a nebulous political entity which is difficult to find physically and well-nigh impossible to reach by telephone. All of the Federal poverty funds are channeled through UPO to Washington's various anti-poverty agencies. Job interviews for programs such as Head Start and Step-Up are usually handled at UPO offices scattered anonymously over the city. Paychecks come from UPO; and UPO is first to be criticized when unfavorable publicity attaches itself to any of the poverty activities...
Strong Attraction. Unable to reach the sulphur atoms to which they are strongly attracted, the sodium atoms each give up an electron to become sodium ions that are able to pass through the ceramic. The extra electrons, having no other way to rejoin the ions, flow through an external circuit that carries them to the sulphur electrode. That electron flow is an electric current...