Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this point he had only watched from the sidelines at San Isidro. At last he took a hand. Instead of a DC-3 to San Juan, he ordered his F-51s to strafe the palace and the approaches to the Duarte Bridge, which his tanks would cross to reach the city. Several people were killed in the raids, which roused the rebel radio and TV stations to a new frenzy. Well-known members of three Communist groups, including the 14th of June, appeared on TV in Cuban-style uniforms to harangue the audience into action. They broadcast the addresses...
Bamboo Bottoms. More than 50,000 fishing junks ply South Viet Nam's bulging, 1,000-mile coastline. The ragged reach from the southern coast to the 17th parallel is a navigator's nightmare of coves and sandbars, ready to crack the keel of any U.S. destroyer that ventures within the ten-fathom curve...
Moise, one of the meeting's organizers, said that the turnout wasn't bad since "we gave ourselves so little time to organize and reach people...
Noting that watchmakers work at curved desks so that their tools are more accessible, she has designed a crescent-shaped keyboard that places the top and bottom keys within easier reach. In addition, she has converted the loud and soft pedals into bars extending the length of the curved keyboard. With feet freed from the center of the piano, she says, the pianist can then swing to either end of the keyboard without having to do a sitdown version of the twist...
...substantial paper fortunes. The SEC chronology: On Nov. 10, 1963, Texas Gulf geologists, headed by Kenneth Darke, were drilling on a claim near Timmins when Darke pulled out an impressive core sample of high-grade copper and zinc-so impressive that he hiked ten miles in the snow to reach his Jeep, then drove into town to call company officials. They notified President Stephens immediately, told the geologists to keep in daily touch. The company officials who got the news then swore themselves to secrecy. They had trees planted in and around the drill holes to conceal the site, moved...