Word: reached
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sunday school gospel that he still teaches occasionally at Washington's First Baptist Church, his belief in the perfectibility of man, his deeply moving experience of witnessing Southern whites coming to terms with blacks, and his own triumph in surmounting enormous odds to reach the White House. He has called for the U.S. to "set a standard of morality" and to pursue policies based on "decency and optimism...
...promised to cut its bombardment in half by 1979. The Navy also lets Hawaiians fish and boat near the island on occasional weekends and once allowed a small group ashore for a religious service. But the Navy maintains that Kahoolawe is the only suitable target range within easy reach of its Hawaiian bases. Vice Admiral Samuel Gravely Jr., commander of the Third Pacific Fleet, pointedly notes: "The military in Hawaii is a billion-dollar-a-year business. A significant part of that business is generated because Navy and Marine forces are here to train, and Kahoolawe is a prime training...
...island, traffic was directed on Riverside Drive by David Epstein, 17 He joked: "My mother told me to go out and play in the traffic, and here I am." Sixteen passers-by turned Coney Island's 150-ft.-high Wonder Wheel by hand, enabling stranded riders to reach the ground...
Otherwise, the committee barely laid a glove on Lance. Summed up Ohio Senator John Glenn: "I think we've gone ethics-happy up here. It's beginning to reach the point where cash is the only acceptable asset for a public official, and you have to keep it at home because if you put it in a bank it might be affected by your decisions...
Nowhere have I seen so many mirages as I saw in Eritrea. To reach out one's hand for what is clearly a shimmering pool of water nestled among rocks, to see reflections in the water, and then to touch sand and feel insects biting: this happened several times, as if one could never learn the lesson. It got to the point where to save precious water, I dry-washed my hands with dirt, only later to find my fingers and palms itching from infinitesimal slivers of thorns hidden in the dirt...