Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such observers, even while agreeing that Jencks had a case for challenging the fairness of his trial, nonetheless felt that the Supreme Court majority had ignored the specific issues placed before it (e.g.: Should a trial judge be required to screen FBI reports for use as evidence?) to reach for a chance to lay down a sweeping rule...
Lured onto a speakers' platform in Asheville, N.C. by the General Federation of Women's Clubs, frosty-haired old (79) Poet Carl Sandburg sat bemusedly while a TV show was praised. Then he took aim at the 21-in.-screen hog caller for the world ("When we reach the stage where all of the people are entertained all of the time, we will be very close to having the opiate of the people"), let fly1 at the plug that comes on little blat feet: "More than half the commercials are filled with inanity, asininity, silliness and cheap trickery...
...there are to be any further changes in the relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe, administrators at both institutions feel that such changes will come about gradually, and only whenever the two schools reach a "common realization of a common need," as Jordan has expressed...
...inch above his desk top: "When it comes to measuring who has given up most for his country. I measure about this high.'' But in the opinion of official and unofficial Washington. Bob Anderson is well on the way to measuring much higher than most men can reach...
...TIME, Sept. 12, 1955), boss of the Air Force's Aero Medical Laboratories, eager Jet Pilot Kittinger, 28, climbed into an instrument-cramped, air-conditioned gondola, was borne upward by a huge helium-filled plastic balloon as ground crews tracked his progress. Kittinger took only 80 minutes to reach the 18-mile mark, spent two hours at peak height before failure of his voice transmitter promoted safety-conscious Supervisor Stapp to order him to earth...