Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Believed that the conference was bound to be a cut-and-dried affair, because U.S. planning did not reach beyond military matters into the economic and political possibilities...
...second match, he met Charley Hanks. They both weighed about 135 pounds, but Hanks was two or three inches taller and had a much longer reach. Roosevelt was also nearsighted, which made it hard for him to see and parry Hanks' blows. "When time was called after the last round," one spectator recalls, "his face was dashed with blood and he was much winded; but his spirit did not flag, and if there had been another round, he would have gone into it with undiminished determination...
...shot the candidate down if he had had a clear shot. If the city administration attempts, as it may, to equate the Lampoon's prank with the death of the MIT fraternity pledge and tries to make an example of the poor Poonie, hostility between town and gown will reach the level attained after 1952's Pogo riot...
...means of fortifying his personal reputation. It was ordered by the division commander (George Macready). mostly out of vanity and the desire to ingratiate. The attack was impossible from the start, and it failed disastrously-one whole company, for instance, was cut down even before the men could reach their own barbed-wire defenses...
...heart of comedy. Ohio-born James Purdy, 34, writes in a manner that is all his own, using a prose at once precise and clumsy, almost as if he had learned English well but late in life. People "grunt" out entire sentences, voices "darken" at listeners, metaphors sometimes reach too far and fall into absurdity...