Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...road winding through steep gorges. Moving at 3 m.p.h., the column halted several times while engineers filled shell craters in the road. At one point there was a four-hour stop while the engineers built abutments on both sides of a chasm so that a bridge span would reach across. The airplanes silenced much of the enemy fire, except on one agonizing day when the air cover was grounded by a driving snowstorm...
...paper tiger and can fully be defeated . . ." The Journal added that China should not fear superior U.S. resources. "This superiority," it explained ominously, "is only temporary . . . After the [Communist] liberation of [Western] Europe, the total steel production of the Soviet Union and [its allies] will reach 67 million-odd tons, which means almost a parity with the amount produced...
...telling the Reds about it. A constant flow of warnings from, his typewriter penetrates East Germany. Before the zone's rigged October election, the underground blanketed the countryside with posters and carefully documented pamphlets blasting Red nominees as crooks and stooges. Bald, professorial Lawyer Friedenau, whose black sideburns reach almost to his chin, boasts that as a result of underground activity 70% of East zone finance offices recently refused to enforce Communist directives expropriating business enterprises...
Young Buddha. It took two weeks to reach the Buddhist monastery of Thyang-boche at 13,000 ft. on the approaches of Mt. Everest, where the party stayed as guests of a 16-year-old reincarnation of the Buddha. Mrs. E. S. Cowles of Colorado Springs, the only woman along, was welcomed with the rest and even allowed to witness impressive Lamaistic rituals-a very unusual honor for a woman, but Mrs. Cowles is one of the world's leading alpinists. Perhaps the teen-aged Buddha was too much impressed with her to treat her as a female...
...Regents recommended Thursday that New York State high schools work overtime to turn out their students in three years. The students then could reach college early and get in at least a year before being drafted into any universal military service program...