Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force said it had recently scored four bull's-eyes on ground targets with its air-to-surface Rascal, a missile designed to extend the reach of the bomber force now in being. Rascal can be launched from an airplane 100 miles from target, can pack an atomic or thermonuclear warhead...
...forget.* An upset gave inspiration to the Democratic Party. An upset here would prove to Republicans all over the country that it can be done." On the chance that it could, Nixon toured seven key counties, made eight full-dress speeches, shook as many hands as he could reach (2,000 in 90 minutes in Bergen County), even inspired 3,000 students who turned out of Atlantic City High School to give him a rousing "Three-Rah Nixon...
Often enough the importer does not bother to import the radios-he has them intercepted in Bangkok and sold at still higher profits. Sometimes the radios really reach Laos (marked with the universally recognized symbol of clasped hands in front of a U.S. flag). But before Laos' primitive customs guards can catch up and impose an import tax, the radios are smuggled back across the Mekong River and shipped into Bangkok for sale at handsome profits. Laotian officials, either out of confusion or collusion, have granted orders for some items that seem of questionable utility in a country that...
...checks would soon go out to the aged and war veterans; and government cash advances on stored grain would help tide many a prairie farmer through a cold winter. Even so, economists privately gloomed that unemployment this winter would almost surely exceed the postwar high of 401,000, might reach 600,000, or 10% of the labor force...
...quoted St. Mark, who said that Jesus always drew on drama in His preachings: "Without a parable spake He not unto them." Since then, the Lutherans have produced more than 150 half-hour parables, distributed free weekly for showing on some 280 TV stations across the U.S. (sufficient to reach 98% of TV homes), 20 in Canada and 20 abroad. As This Is the Life* entered its sixth year of merchandising last week, it could lay claim to being the most widely televised show in broadcasting history...