Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also been put to a lot of trouble? deciding just how to reach all the people in the country. Enumerators were prepared to move by airplanes in Alaska and Maine, in Coast Guard cutters to offshore islands, in canoes, rowboats and snow caterpillars, or by horseback in the more remote hills and backwoods of the U.S. (the Government allowed census-takers $2.50 a day for "horse procural" when necessary...
Some patients tore and scratched at their rescuers; others tried to run toward the heart of the fire; some simply stood still, rocking with laughter, until they were dragged to safety. But nine men patients were out of reach. They died of asphyxiation from the smoke. A tenth died later in a hospital. Five of the victims, their bodies bruised and torn by their terrified efforts to break free, were found strapped to iron posts in a single 15-by-30-ft. room...
...bomb could set the world's atmosphere afire, it "would cause almost complete destruction of buildings up to a radius of ten miles . . . Chicago with all its suburbs and most of their inhabitants [could be] wiped out in a single flash." Bethe asked for new efforts to reach an atomic agreement with Russia, and a unilateral declaration, by the President or Congress, that the U.S. will not be the first to use the bomb...
...drive for street sales, editors often reach preposterously for a local angle. Hearst's American reached all the way to Siam and back again last week for the headline on its story about Cambridge-born King Phumiphon's return to Siam: BOSTON KING IN ODD RITES. With equal zeal, Boston papers reach for any story labeled B.O. MUST (e.g., a story from the business office sent in by an advertiser). But when news breaks that might offend an advertiser, such as a fire or robbery at a department store or a suicide at a leading hotel, either...
...Satan. The drys, who are trying to persuade Congress to ban liquor advertising in interstate publications, broadcasts, etc., argue that the "distinction" ads are bad for young Americans; they are apt to persuade youngsters that the way to achieve success is to have a Lord Calvert highball within easy reach...