Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worldwide Communist "disinformation" net work; that their simplest expressions of thanks to their hosts will be represented as prostrations before the might and glory of Mao Tse-tung's regime; and that if they venture to comment unfavourably on anything they see, no breath of that criticism will reach the millions behind the iron curtain. They presumably think this is a price worth paying in order to see Peking's peepshow...
...Landy broke fast and was out in front by the end of the first quarter. He increased his pace, for only by getting a good lead could he hope to hold off Briton Bannister's famed finishing kick. But longjawed Roger Bannister never let him get out of reach. He dogged the Australian's strides closely and carefully, was hanging on easily when Landy passed the metric-mile post (1,500 meters) at a better-than-world's-record clip (3:41.9). There Bannister turned on his fabulous reserve power and made his move. "I looked back...
...Reach for the Sky, by Paul Brickhill. The heroic story of Douglas Bader, a legless RAF ace who fought in the Battle of Britain, destroyed 22½ enemy planes and kept his German captors busy recapturing him (TIME...
...speech last year, he summed up his deep-grained pragmatic approach. Said Speaker Martin: "We [Republicans] are not reformers, not do-gooders, not theorists, not the advocates of any alien philosophies or political dipsy-doo. We are just practical Americans, trying to do a practical job to reach practical goals. We do not belong to that school of political thought which has for so many years pursued the fallacious proposition that if a little bit is good for us-ten times as much is just wonderful...
Last week in an Iowa District Courthouse, Register lawyers argued that "the public has a right to know about these cases . . . The very security and success of government depends upon the dissemination of that kind of information." The jury took just four minutes to reach a verdict dismissing the complaint against Photographer Long. Ruled the court in effect: photographers on public property may take pictures of anyone they want to, objection...