Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sometimes exasperation. It is simple in concept and organization, infinitely complex in detail; a marvel of systematic sense when the system is mastered, a mire of confusion when it is not. It is the brain of the U.S.'s armed might. Through its radio antennae its nerve ends reach to a bloody hill in Korea, to Eisenhower's SHAPE headquarters, to a destroyer squadron in the Mediterranean. The incoming messages are caught up by the churning life which animates its rings of corridors, flow to high, bare spaces where it weighs, remembers, balances before it makes its decisions...
...Imperial Highness, Prince Mahmoud Reza Pahlevi, 24, brother of Iran's Shah, got another traffic ticket-his eighth in two years at the University of Michigan-for buzzing along the campus in his Cadillac at 60 m.p.h. Hauled into the police station, he suddenly bolted, tried to reach his car, but was nabbed by cops and brought back weeping to get a court summons...
...should take measures to increase the flow of good students who have other qualities that are needed to reach our ideal balance. . . . I believe there are many boys of the kind we want in the second quarter of classes that now send up only...
When Georgetown dropped football and left the head coach temporarily out of a job last March, Margarita thought he would like to return to Cambridge if there were any room for him on the new staff. He wrote to Lloyd Jordan without knowing that Jordan was trying to reach him at the same time to offer a position...
This letter may take some time to reach you, as it goes first by a native in a hollowed tree-trunk canoe, then in a dhow, then in a trading schooner, and finally in a plane-a kind of potted edition of travel through the ages...