Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proof that the election was honest was incontrovertible: the ins took a terrible shellacking. President Elpidio Quirino, well-meaning but weak, the leader of a party infected with corruption, had come to power in an election as crooked as a hatful of fishhooks. Last week, in almost every reach of the islands, his Liberals lost to the opposition Nacionalistas, led by Jose Laurel, the able but embittered man who was President of the Philippines under Japanese rule. (Collaboration has largely ceased to be a political issue in the Philippines since the late Manuel Roxas, once No. 2 in the puppet...
...called Pag-asa (Tagalog for hope), he toured the islands, dropping in unannounced on one army outpost after another; in regions Pag-asa could not reach, he traveled by car or carabao cart. He gave the soldiers better food, better quarters, promise of advancement. At one post he went out with a patrol to do a little Huk-shooting himself, and handed a battlefield commission to a sergeant who bagged three. At another post he found soldiers sleeping without blankets...
...tradition the main body of its precepts speak alike no matter what their individual social or economic backgrounds . . . The judges who have made American law did not find an easy retreat from the hard work of the judicial office in a theory of a psychological impotence of judges to reach impersonal results...
...likes the rivalry; it gives buyers a greater "choice" of products, permits Hotpoint to reach dealers who would be excluded by G.E.'s existing franchises. Hotpoint's competition also keeps G.E.'s own salesmen and production staff on their toes. The competition is even stiffer than G.E. bargained for. In Nance's four years as president, he has pushed Hotpoint from a relatively minor place to a spot among the big electric appliance manufacturers, boosted its yearly sales from $20 million to an estimated $200 million...
Brown did say that he was sure the committee would not consider a proposal for a Public Arts Center for radio, movies, and theatre because the project was probably out of reach and because it might run into building materials trouble...