Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gone for Ike than for Taft. Most of Taft's convention strength lies either in 1) states where the G.O.P. candidate has little or no chance to win in November, or 2) states which the Republicans are almost sure to win, if any Republican has a chance to reach the presidency in 1952. Taft is strong in the states that are already converted and the states that are unconvertible. Ike is especially strong in the states that can be converted...
...prison camp ahead of the American advance, and demanded the release of three Allied officers sentenced to be shot. ''You have three important prisoners here," she told a sergeant major. "If you shoot them, I will see to it that you yourself are shot when the Americans reach here." The authority in her words and manner was too much for the noncom. The gates were opened and the four walked out. "It was the bravest deed I ever saw," said one of the officers later...
...dressed in check suits, long trousers, and blue trilby hats . . . cowboy suits . . . bobby socks ... violent tartans ... Poor little brutes! Eating their cake too early, they will get through it too quickly . . . It is precisely this too-early maturity in ... manners, customs, habits and dress in Americans which makes them reach such an early, uninteresting and uniform middle age. What could be lovelier than an American girl at 19 or 20 . . .? What more dreadful than the American woman of 40 with her horn-rimmed spectacles, her leathery skin, her strident voice, her rushing about to lectures and committees, her general...
...lightweight (250 lbs.) toothpick shells in surging spurts over Syracuse's Lake Onondaga. It was the golden jubilee race of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association, once known as the Poughkeepsie Regatta, later shifted from the Hudson River to the Ohio (at Marietta), and now settled at Syracuse, out of reach of floods...
...weeks), will have no sister ship to team up with; the America can't keep as fast a schedule. On top of this, all liners are waging a losing battle against the airlines. Five years ago, only 30% of transatlantic travel was by air. This year it will reach about 40%, and airlines talk confidently of getting the bulk of the business next year. But as long as the travel boom lasts, shippers are not too worried; they think they will get their profitable share-and they think they have some things that no plane can match...