Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last time. "I don't want to quit flying," he admitted. "No flyer ever will." But Heath Proctor, who had watched the airlines graduate from a risky adventure to a workaday routine, had passed his 60th birthday-the first man on any U.S. airline ever to reach retirement age while still a pilot...
...French reworded their draft communiqué to make it clear that it implied merely an agreement to try to reach agreement. The British still argued that it read to them like an advance commitment. A Quai d'Orsay spokesman said testily: "Their diplomatic notes sound as if they haven't read our diplomatic notes...
...leather-lunged chatter during a conference rambles almost as much as his footsteps, and the sessions usually last about 2½ hours. It is Scenario Coordinator Mollie Mandaville'si vital job to take down the jumble of words and translate them into a tight, coherent account that will reach the participants' desks the next morning so that they will know precisely what the boss said. Zanuck is annoyed if a new writer puts some of his ad-libbed dialogue into the script. He thinks in pictorial terms, does not fancy himself as a dialogue writer, intends...
Since Drummer Hughes was at parade rest at the time, with his hands behind his back, he judged with impeccable correctness that it would be nonreg to reach around and give the bird a swipe with his fist. So he just let it stay there. It is also somewhat nonreg, at parade rest, to grin from ear to ear. Hughes and nearby middies had less success on this point...
...students think there is a 75 percent chance they'll reach the top. But, they say, "What the other 25 percent may be, we don't know...