Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million extension. Stewart claims that the old walls cannot safely be repaired or replaced in their present position, and that the arches supporting the building might collapse if the temporary shoring is removed. Moreover, he adds, his plan would add 41 acres of badly needed floor space within easy reach of the House and Senate cham bers, enough room for 110 new offices (many with a spectacular view of the Mall), two cafeterias, two dining rooms and an auditorium for tourists...
...seven British-protected Trucial States that cradle the Persian Gulf, Abu Dhabi is the fourth largest oil producer in the Gulf; this year it expects to earn $70 million in oil revenues, which by 1970 are likely to reach an annual $125 million. Yet under Shakhbout, Abu Dhabi's 20,000 people seldom saw a cent of the riches...
...turned freelancer, and has been covering the war ever since-except for a few brief vacations like the one to Singapore, where he began a motorbike ride back to Saigon through Laos, Cambodia and the Viet Cong. He soon totaled himself and the bike, and was forced to reach Saigon by safer means...
...countless emergencies, the pay telephone is the one way to reach help. But the pay phone is mute and deaf until it has been fed its dime. To clear the line, Southern New England Telephone Co. is converting its pay telephones in Hartford so that the caller can get the operator without a coin...
...week's end, the orbiter was scheduled to reach a crucial point 550 miles away from the moon. There, plans called for firing its retrorocket for 9½ minutes and cutting its speed from 6,000 m.p.h. to 2,000 m.p.h. Purpose: to let the moon's gravity capture the spacecraft and pull it into "loose lunar orbit" on an elliptical course ranging from 120 to 1,150 miles above the moon...