Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game marked the first time this year that Harvard failed to reach the 75-point mark...
...elopement in a stupor after lunch. Doors slam; people hop out from bushes and then back behind them; Platonov carries on simultaneous conversations, and the wrong people hear him. This might be French bedroom farce, except that lives are at stake. Whatever Platonov decides, his little world will not reach equilibrium again...
...alcoholism. Take the national tragedy: drunkenness. People want a "dry law." At the same time all kinds of epithets reach us from the queues, all kinds of anecdotes about Gorbachev. No, we won't leave this path. I also like to drop into the Central Literary Club and have a drink. I know that letters reach us with threats, but we will not give in to these sentiments. We will save the people...
...everything was just concentrated on that goal. For my part, I had followed the path of least resistance: O.K., if I have to show myself, I'll do it. But I didn't go beyond that. I didn't go beyond people I knew. I just didn't reach out. Then, all of a sudden, with my husband in prison, he was suffering, I was suffering. Yet we knew that others were worse off. We didn't have to worry about where our next meal was coming from or whether our children could go to school. So then, I guess...
Nonetheless, she went ahead the next day with a spiritual retreat, planned earlier to help her reach a decision, at a convent of the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration just outside Manila. "I had one day free, and I wanted to spend it praying," she explained. She told her Jesuit spiritual adviser that she wanted to fast, but he urged her not to. "The nuns will be so disappointed," he said, "if they cannot offer you food." She insisted, adding that she would bring only a few crackers to keep up her strength. In the end, Cory could not refuse...