Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Panmunjom disputed over what is a neutral nation. Sweden or Switzerland would not do. said the Communists, and seemed to prefer an Asian nation. Fine, said the U.N.: how about Pakistan? The Communists promised to think about it. But above all this haggling, one point was rising clear: to reach an armistice, one side is going to have to surrender its fundamental position on prisoner repatriation...
...town is 2½ miles from the airstrip, on a spit of land at the confluence of the Nam Khan and Mekong rivers. We reach it over a frail bamboo bridge floating on native dugout canoes. Here the jungle seems to be about to swallow the city's few houses and streets. Charming white temples and graceful stupas, elaborately decorated with legends and characters from the Ramayana relics of India, are everywhere crowded by tall green rustling palms, fragrant frangipani trees and scarlet-blossomed poincianas...
Since poly's uses mushroomed even faster than its output, supply has never caught up with demand. Used during World War II as insulation for radar and other electronic equipment, poly did not even reach the civilian market until war's end. Until recently, all poly produced in the U.S. was allocated by the Government, and it has been selling on the grey market at twice the regular price...
...University and the HUERA have until June 30 to reach an agreement. The present contract runs out at that time...
...silver iodide crystals are carried into the rain clouds by air currents from ground crystal generators. When the crystals reach the cloud, they serve as nuclei to which the water in the cloud adheres. The advantage of using the crystals is that they attract the water particles at a much higher temperature than the regular ice crystals...