Word: reached
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years ago, Poet McGinley began to dip into history ("I have a theory," she says, "that people cannot appreciate history until they reach 40"). As she read, she encountered saints and their works. Though raised a Roman Catholic, she knew little about them and began to read more and more until, she says, "like everyone else who reads about the saints, I fell madly in love with them." The result of Phyllis McGinley's love affair was a series of deft verses on some of the saints (see opposite page}, which she titled "Saints Without Tears" and assembled...
...Payoff. With the B-47 and B-5 and its KC-97 program, Boeing is in the best shape ever. This year, sales will reach the $1 billion mark, and profits will probably hit $31 million, 48% more than the peak war years. This spring Boeing's 14,419 stockholders got the added dividend of a two-for-one stock split...
SAID the AEC majority: "The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 lays upon the commissioners the duty to reach a determination as to 'the character, associations and loyalty' of the individuals engaged in the work of the commission. Thus, disloyalty would be one basis for disqualification, but it is only one. Substantial defects of character and imprudent and dangerous associations . . . are also reasons for disqualification . . . Prior to these proceedings, the derogatory information in Government files concerning Dr. Oppenheimer had never been weighed by any board on the basis of sworn testimony
Typically, he studied it as if skiing were a problem of high finance, developed a theory that it is a "study in will power." "He thought that one could reach a sort of inner harmony while skiing," says a friend. That harmony is still far off; he has broken a leg, been hospitalized with contusions. "I've never seen such a terrible skier," says a friend...
...engine gave out, then the other coughed and went dead. The plane landed on a calm sea, only a mile from shore, but it carried no lifebelts, jackets or dinghies (required only when a flight is more than 30 minutes over water). Before boats from shore could reach the plane, it sank. Unable to swim, two of the women passengers and the boy drowned...