Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hangs over a precipice by his teeth, which are clenched in the branch of a tree. His hands are full and his feet cannot reach the face of the precipice. A friend leans over and asks him, 'What is Zen?' What answer should the man make...
Nine times out of ten the Joint Chiefs reach agreement and pass their recommendations upward to civilian authority for the final decisions, a red line slashed across the bottom of each of the white policy papers to signify J.C.S. agreement. When the Chiefs disagree, it is the job of the chairman, Admiral Radford, to press them, gently or not gently, or to report the disagreement to his civilian boss, Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson. "What do you think, Raddy?" Wilson will then invariably ask. Invariably, Radford will produce a written reply, saying, "Here are a few thoughts...
Harvard began to pull away in the second half, and once ran the lead up to 11 points. But the team was not playing its best game, and the many fundamental errors it committed enabled Williams to stay in reach. With a minute and a half left the home team tried valiantly to overcome a 7-point deficit, but was stopped just short of success...
...also traced the path of strontium 90 from the nuclear reaction to the human body. Most of it was produced by the biggest thermonuclear explosions, U.S. and Soviet, and most of it rose high into the stratosphere. The particles are so small that they fall very slowly until they reach the lower atmosphere. Then rain washes them quickly down to the surface. This process takes time; strontium 90 is now spread all over the earth, with somewhat less in the Southern than in the Northern Hemisphere...
...countless G.I.s who spent a tour of duty in Japan, few failed to load up on souvenirs. But only a handful of Americans realized what a collector's paradise was within their reach. Among the enthusiastic exceptions are the two Hauge brothers, Victor and Osborne, who with Osborne's wife Gratia were sent to Tokyo at the end of World War II, promptly fell in love with oriental ways and decided that the key to the mysterious East...