Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What enables the wise sovereign and good general to strike and conquer, and achieve things beyond the reach of ordinary men, is foreknowledge...
Complex Justification. Only in this single remark did some of the private bitterness of the U.N. command reach the surface. The top commanders, like everyone else, were glad that the bloodshed was ended, but they took no pride in their achievement, and they felt no satisfaction in the armistice they were ordered to sign. They knew the argument that in this war freedom had been defended and aggression repelled, but, cabled TIME Correspondent Dwight Martin, "they all seem concerned that some day they will be called on to explain why they signed the present armistice. Several I've talked...
...discovered Chulliat's body in a 500-ft. abyss. They also heard faint cries of "Au secours," but saw no one. The mountaineers rushed back down to Chamonix to round up a rescue party. That afternoon the party discovered Barbacki still perched on his ledge. They could not reach him at once; the melting snows were sending rocks crashing down the mountainside...
CALIFORNIA'S mushrooming electronics industry, grown in ten years from 30 companies doing $25 million to 186 that will gross $700 million this year, expects its annual sales to reach $1 billion...
...marsupial equivalents of large, slow-moving, herbivorous beasts such as tapirs, lumbered inoffensively through the lush vegetation that covered Australia at the end of the last glacial period, and they managed to stay alive long enough to be seen and possibly eaten by the first primitive men to reach Australia. But Australia began to have the long droughts that it still suffers today, and this was hard on the diprotodons, which were neither bright nor adaptable...