Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...volunteer for the reserves. Youths from 17 to 18½ years of age would get an opportunity to sign up for three to six months of active service (followed by the rest of their eight years reserve obligation), which would be deferred until they graduate from high school or reach the age of 20 (whichever comes first...
...Russians very evidently came to Geneva not to reach settlements, but to strike an attitude: the attitude of reasonable men willing to let bygones be bygones, even if most of the bygones they wanted overlooked were their own. They came asking for respectability. And they figured that they would get it merely by being there and showing themselves well-behaved. Thus the Russians could not lose. They had to give up nothing to get what they wanted. So they gave up nothing, and showed themselves amiable...
...added that "the remilitarization of Western Germany and her integration into military groupings of the Western powers is the main obstacle at the present time to the unification of Germany." They could "exchange views" about the problem, he said relaxedly, "even though in present circumstances we may fail to reach immediate agreement ... In that case, the problem should be solved step by step." His idea of "step by step" would be for the NATO powers to negotiate a European security pact with the Communist states...
...made a brave effort last week to do more than merely entertain. It tried to say something. In its handling of the news and its treatment of drama, it tried to reach beyond fact to what was significant, and beyond fiction to what was meaningful. Unhappily, on all three levels-news, drama and new summer entertainment-TV fell ingloriously on its face...
...price in four years, did not let the land lie fallow. Instead, they put other crops into the ground. As a result, they may well produce the largest soybean crop on record, oats production will come close to setting a new high, and the sorghum crop may also reach a new peak...