Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes to acknowledge the thunderous cheers ("Freedom! Freedom!") of some thousands of Ghanians massed behind a fence at the edge of the flag-ringed field to greet him. Quipped the Vice President, leaning over the white fence to shake hands: "In America, we call this the boardinghouse reach." By late this month, when Nixon plans to wind up his current trip, the new Nixon-style boardinghouse reach will have spread far and wide over Moslem and Negro Africa the personal good will of the no longer so distant...
...Nasser's vaunted army. Countries like Saudi Arabia and Iraq, though they gave lip service to Nasser when he was attacked, have found his blockage of the canal has cost them dear in oil revenues. The Arab Kings have always resented Nasser's implied threat to reach over their heads to the street mobs in their own countries, have become increasingly aware that Nasser has exploited Arab nationalism primarily for Egypt. The new rulers of Tunisia, Morocco and Libya, the young King of Jordan, the new pro-Western government of Lebanon, though all making noises of Arab unity...
...least trouble last October. Rakosi had been tough on the peasants ("Every Kulak is guilty of something"), but Kadar has redistributed the national income in favor of the peasants, even made the hated farm collectivization program voluntary. For the first time nylon stockings and suede shoes are within reach of peasant girls and boys who, without being enthusiastic about Kadar, say they are now "almost as well off as they were under the rule of the Esterhazys." Among white-collar workers there is widespread unemployment. Piecework, introduced into the factories, is being used as a method of selective coercion...
...partner later." But going steady, he finds, is bad for both the body and soul of those too young to contemplate marriage as imminent. "Teenagers going steady are enkindling mutual love in much the same way as courting couples do ... But the sacrament of union is not within their reach as the natural term of their desires. The resulting tension [puts] a heavy strain on the observance of God's law of chastity...
...divorce settlement, Art Lover Robinson sold it through Knoedler's, then bought back for himself 14 paintings worth an estimated $500,000. For the works Niarchos acquired, the price was about $2,500,000. Estimated commission to Knoedler's: $250,000. To help the highly emotional Robinsons reach agreement with each other and with a buyer, Knoedler's had assigned a mobile task force to the transaction (one man to Robinson, another to his wife, a third to Niarchos) and worked six months before the deal was closed...