Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handsome young King of Cambodia himself sat rapt in the audience, 16-year-old Monique carried away all honors in a beauty contest sponsored by UNESCO. For his young (29) majesty, Samdach Preah Upayuva-reach Norodom Sihanouk, it was a plain case of love at first sight, despite the fact that he was already bulwarked against loneliness by four concubines and ten children. He promptly invited Monique for a spin in his cream-colored Lancia and composed a song for her. Monique responded by quitting school, to the scandalized horror of the French set. As far as they were concerned...
spheres, Will us to wear ourselves and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit...
Equations of War. The ICBM is the nearest thing to an "ultimate weapon," complete with delivery system, that has ever been conceived. From U.S.-controlled territory, it could reach any part of the world, wreck the biggest city by blast and heat. Then the radioactive byproducts, drifting with the wind, could turn an area the size of many nations into a silent wilderness. An enemy's version of ICBM could do the same to any part...
...play was that none of the characters were virtuous enough to be morally sympathetic or villainous enough to be theatrically sympathetic. But its speech and action had the ring of authenticity, and it was filled with accurately observed scenes, as when two bigshots spend a day futilely trying to reach each other by phone and are thwarted because each of their loyal secretaries is too proud to put her boss on the wire first...
...seems, however, that Wailes' mother had tried to reach him about some legal papers on Wednesday night. Hearing that her son and the car were not in the Yard, she eventually had messages sent over the police teletype Saturday asking that he be requisitioned...