Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What differs is the advertising. The variety of editions allows an advertiser who is aiming his product or service at, say, Ireland and New York to reach those particular markets in the most specific and economical sense...
...past year, the cover has dropped from 29.7% to 27.7%, largely because the Federal Reserve issued so much new money to service the expanding economy while the nation's gold supply has remained static. This year the outflow of U.S. gold to foreign countries is expected to reach its highest level since 1960, and the gold cover will slip perilously close to the 25% floor...
...seating arrangement, and can fly at speeds of 560 m.p.h. More important, it can land and take off at nearly any commercial airport now serviced by ordinary piston planes. The advent of the DC-9 and other short-haul jets will bring the jet age within the reach of nearly every run and runway. The new planes will gradually replace the old piston and turboprop jets on runs of up to 1,000 miles, which now account for more than 60% of the world's passenger business...
...with infernal glee as he opens the vials of vituperation on the heads of humankind. His passions are scoriae, his imagination a holocaust. His wit is an indentured imp that leaps to any bidding-it can tickle the funny bone, attack with acid, fry living flesh on a deadpan, reach down the throat of a corpse and come up with a ghastly guffaw. His language is bare, strong, lucid, manly: perhaps the most intensely concentrated prose ever written in English. In energy he is the last Elizabethan; not even Shakespeare's Lear surpasses the vigor of Swift...
...inside the skin of an American Negro. It feels, if the hero's experience is the general one, as if the 14th Amendment had not been psychologically ratified. "The white men!" the hero rages in despair. "They get inside you and you can't stop them! They reach right into you with their damn white hands and turn...