Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...manufacturers, among whom onetime (1947-50) Air Force Secretary Symington is especially popular. But again, the meeting was dominated by the Brown-following San Diego County Democratic Committee. Indeed, it was not until he got to Los Angeles that Symington was able to do any real digging out of reach of the watchful Brown followers. There, at a cocktail party at the home of his old, close friend, Oilman Edwin Pauley. Symington moved easily among guests ranging from Frank Sinatra to Hotelman Conrad Hilton. But he also spent a long while in private, animated conversation with Host Pauley, whose wealth...
Gathering in Munich to sign away the life of Czechoslovakia were "the Italians, clearly terrified of being landed by Hitler into a European war; the French, including [Premier] Daladier, resolved to reach agreement at any cost," and "so on edge that from time to time they gave the impression that Czechoslovakia was to be blamed for having brought all this trouble upon us. In this atmosphere Hitler had little difficulty getting...
...Jetliner. Loose objects on the ground are not inhaled directly by the great flood of air passing through an engine, Douglas engineers found. Instead, a vortex like a small tornado forms below and just ahead of the engine's intake. If anything loose is within its reach, the vortex lifts it up like a house in a Kansas twister. Then the main air stream grabs it and hurls it into the engine...
...counterattack starts, as a divisional reflex, before the first question can be answered by the Far East command. But even before King Company can reach the first Chinese defenses, the rusty U.S. chain of command has snapped. The assault group is caught in the full glare of an Allied searchlight battery that has confused Pork Chop with "some other hill," and before the lights go out, a dozen or more Americans lie dead or wounded. Shocked and bewildered, the green troops nevertheless hold firm, then make a wild charge that carries the Communist outworks...
...first page of this massive Civil War novel, Hero John Bottomley is up before dawn to fight a duel with villainous Ules Monckton. But he does not reach the dueling ground until page 143. having lost his way in a maze of flashbacks intended to introduce the reader to the large, and largely predictable, cast. There is the weak younger brother who breaks his stern daddy's heart; the high-strung mother who fears a slave insurrection; the "giddy, harum-scarum" little sister; the coldly beautiful woman who spurns the hero and marries money; and inevitably, a willful, head...