Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimates were immediately available on the amount of money which could be realized by the sale of the resultant scrap metal but it will probably not reach the $170,000 spent in 1929 for construction...
...play in a meaningless group of five. Everybody in athletics knows that five is too small for a league, and the Pentagonal provides the living proof. First place is the only one that counts, although second has a certain (very minor) prestige. Once first and second are out of reach, the league standings provide no stimulus to either competitive spirit or spectator interest...
...physicians and lawyers who remembered the record of the Nürnberg war-crimes trials. Dr. Schreiber was one of 200 German physicians sought by U.S. prosecutors for questioning and possible trial on charges of having performed or abetted inhuman experiments on human subjects. Schreiber was out of reach until the Russians produced him to testify against Hermann Göring. Then, when U.S. officials tried to get their hands on him, the Russians spirited Schreiber off to the east again...
Steamroller. Many U.S. newsmen and politicians who have followed the course of the U.S.'s well-intentioned reach for international press agreements, now demand the U.S. wash its hands altogether of further attempt to legislate press freedom.* But the State Department, Binder and others argue that the U.S., trapped, now has no choice but to go on. It must stay in the fight and try to kill the restrictive convention or it will be steamrollered through, virtually unopposed...
Biographer Ward's own opinion is that Chesterton's "ready acceptance of life's normal pleasures" rules him out of saintly ranks. But it does not put him among those who, precisely because they "fail to reach sanctity . . . pour out upon us the vials of their gloom." Chesterton ranks, she believes, among the "spiritual geniuses" of the human race-"to which," as G.K. once observed, "so many of my readers belong...