Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tough control bill and thrust it on the Administration. While a panicky public went on a buying spree and bid prices up, Mr. Truman refused to use his powers. By the time he got around to it, high prices, largely induced by fear-buying, were almost out of his reach...
...White Sox went down quickly in the top of the first, as rookie Leo Kiely allowed only one man to reach base. Howie Judson of Chicago was less successful, and a series of walks and singles produced three runs for the home club with no outs. Our neighbor leaned over to speak to a man smoking a cigar. "One hundred to sixteen," he said. "That's what they think of the Red Sox in this ball park...
Then came the Amethyst's break. In answer to Kerans' pleas, the Communists delivered 56 tons of fuel oil to operate the refrigerators and ventilators. The 56 tons, Kerans figured, gave him just enough to reach the open sea. He decided to run for it. Luckily the Yangtse was in high water, but, even so, the tortuous, silted channel was a skipper's nightmare-especially without an experienced Chinese pilot. And even if Kerans had the luck to stick to the channel while ducking Communist artillery, there was still a boom of sunken ships to pass...
...last they reach the Holy Bottle, and Panurge puts his question. The Bottle replies, "Trine!"-which is interpreted by the priestess to mean, "Drink!" And here Rabelais, in symbolic language, offers his cup of life to whoever has the taste for it: "We hold not that laughing, but that drinking is the distinguishing character of man." Panurge interprets the oracle to mean that he should take whatever cup life offers him, and drinks it down with a will...
Thanks to medicine (and medicine's pals) more people reach old age nowadays -even in benighted Europe. Dr. Martin Gumpert, 62, looks on the bright side of that fact. Old age is not always second childhood, says he. "There is often, instead, a second prime." In this week's New York Times Magazine, Gumpert lists some of Europe's prime oldsters. Among them...