Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hitch up. With the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. already moving toward the conclusion of a New York-to-Moscow air pact and an outer-space treaty, the habitually dour Gromyko astounded newsmen by emerging from a State Department dinner with the observation that "both countries are striving to reach agreement" on measures to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons...
...Trung sisters spurred Viet Nam toward independence two millennia ago, women have played a major role in the nation's life. They run not only their homes but shops, factories and farms as well. And thanks to the exploits of Mme. Nhu, everyone knows the pinnacles they can reach in politics. Last week, as South Viet Nam's fledgling National Constituent Assembly got down to business, a new femina politica was on the ascendant: Mme. Tran Thi Xa, the lady delegate from Gia Dinh...
...when he arrived for work, he learned from a TV gossip column that he had been replaced by Jack Paar. "In the course of the day, I discovered that the Hollywood version of the networks is quite correct. I called CBS executives all day long and couldn't reach a single one. The order was out to all secretaries that no one wanted to talk to me." It was small consolation to open his mail and read one brief letter: "Jack Paar won't be as good as you. I know-I'm his mother...
...open its judicial windows to practically every ill and issue of U.S. life. In the face of what it regards as legislative inaction, the "Warren court" has desegregated schools, revolutionized criminal justice, rewritten the U.S. political system by plunging into the thicket of legislative reapportionment. To expand the long reach of the Constitution, it has imposed almost all of the Bill of Rights on the states as well as the Federal Government for the first time in U.S. history...
...Standard-Triumph's sleek Triumph GT6 is a $3,460 version of the small, 105 m.p.h. Spitfire, with a special hardtop and a six-cylinder engine that can reach a top speed of 107 m.p.h...