Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though the search-by as many as 55 ships and 35 aircraft-continued at a diminished level, it seemed most likely that Scorpion had gone to the bottom in the depths beyond the reach of sonar, divers or the McCann chamber. Unlike the loss of Thresher with 129 men aboard, Scorpion's demise appeared to have nothing to do with inadequate shipyard maintenance: she ostensibly got a "Four 0"-i.e., excellent -rating in an overhaul only last summer, and had performed superbly in the Mediterranean. Had she not remained incommunicado in transit but been required to signal her position...
Such pessimists ignore conciliation: an ancient art that has served mankind through centuries of quarrelsome existence. To be sure, attempts at conciliation are often futile until the combatants reach exhaustion. Henry Clay's compromises merely delayed the Civil War that Abraham Lincoln had to win before the Union could be restored. It is not the United Nations that prevents World War III but the balance of nuclear terror...
...approach, the Senate last week passed and sent to the House a $5 billion bill aimed at, among other things, improving conditions in riot-torn cities by tripling output of subsidized housing for the poor. Soaring costs, to which subsidies themselves would contribute, can make that goal harder to reach; they can also dim the Johnson Administration's hope of almost doubling housing production to 2.6 million units a year within a decade...
Winter-grown green peppers, grapes and watermelons from Lebanon now reach dinner tables in London almost as rapidly as in Beirut. They get to Covent Garden, where the melons fetch 50?, v. 8? in a Lebanese bazaar, by means of cargo planes and because of the sagacity of a 40-year-old Lebanese with some slick trading talents...
John Kennedy promised to "get this country moving again"; yet he did not remotely reach his legislative goals in Congress. Lyndon Johnson salvaged much of Kennedy's program; yet he sacrificed his grand consensus in the unpopular Viet Nam war. What defeats great presidential expectations...