Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With a corporate sigh, the Joint Chiefs of Staff settled down to work. For the next four hours, staff officers presented and explained position papers. Those papers are first drafted on white paper, reprinted on buff paper when sent out to field commands for comment. By the time they reach the J.C.S., they have "gone green." If the Chiefs accept them, they are put in a red-striped folder and sent on to the Pentagon's civilian leaders as official J.C.S. recommendations. If the Chiefs reject a paper, it "goes purple." When the Chiefs split-as they often...
...behind. The mere fact that he happened, said Historian Will Durant, "silences the grumbling of a thousand pessimists." Said Adlai Stevenson: "Like the grandeur and power of masterpieces of art and music, Churchill's life uplifts our hearts and fills us with fresh revelation of the scale and reach of human achievement." Yet, he concluded, "our world is thus the poorer, our political dialogue diminished and the sources of public inspiration run more thinly for all of us. There is a lonesome place against...
...really trying to do exactly that. It is trying to maintain order-not necessarily its own order-in vast areas of the globe. In this sense it faces an infinitely harder task than any imperial power because it cannot, and does not want to, employ imperialist weapons. The military reach of the U.S. across the world is awesome -neither capital nor continent, neither jungle nor village, and no quadrant of the sky is beyond the range of its missiles or its reconnaissance planes. And yet in a nuclear age, the weapons are there mostly in order not to be used...
...breeders insist that hounds are even easier to handicap than horses. For one thing, there is no jockey to worry about. Greyhounds reach speeds up to 40 m.p.h. on the straightaway. They compete without regard to sex, and the winningest dog of all time was a little brindled bitch named Indy Ann, who racked up 137 victories in the mid-1950s. Buying a hound is somewhat cheaper than buying a race horse (promising pups sell for $1,000 up), and far less chancy: unlike the ponies, greyhounds breed so true that handlers can predict the habits of a pup with...
...when the Crimson slowed down in the final period, Dartmouth put the game out of reach. Bill Smoyer boosted the Indians ahead for good at 2:19 by tipping in Dick Larsen's shot, at which point the Indian rink was littered with wildlife...