Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pentagon as chief of its Eastern European branch of intelligence; in 1961 she was sent to France as chief of the Armed Forces Soviet intelligence section. She has a chestful of medals and citations, and she insists on being called colonel-the highest rank a woman can reach. Says she: "I've earned...
...Wyoming. It landed at Cheyenne. He got out and grabbed a taxi to go to the park, only to find he was still 485 miles away. Nearly half of all incoming tourists land in New York, and Niagara is often the farthest point west they and their budgets reach...
...keys on the piano), Kodály's method uses games and pictures to introduce painlessly the basic concepts of musical structure and notation. The result is that thousands of students learn to read com plex scores as easily as a column of figures by the time they reach the eighth grade. Best of all, says Kodály, the children become skillful performers on "a beautiful musical instrument"-the hu man voice. He believes that singing not only provides "the best foundation of musicality" but also conditions the body and stimulates the brain...
...years, and he is beginning to act-or at least talk-like a man approaching middle age. He no longer gleefully plays stickball with the kids in the street; golf (9 handicap) is his leisure game. He speaks of his retirement day as if it were almost within reach, doesn't hesitate to mention that "I need my rest"-ten or twelve hours a night. He neither smokes nor drinks...
...does everything wrong. He stands so far back in the batter's box that he cannot possibly reach a curve before it breaks. He holds the bat at the very end, actually gripping the knob on the handle with the fingers of his right hand. He hardly ever gets a base on balls because he swings at practically everything; and he does not bother to study opposing pitchers, or even learn their names. "You never hit the pitcher," he shrugs, "just the pitch." Batting is all a matter of luck anyway. "You no lucky, you get no hits...