Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best boxing performance was turned in by Albert Damon of Leverett in the 165 pound bout, as he blocked everything Howard Wood, who had a considerable advantage in reach, could throw at him. Although he kept his right in check the Rabbitt piled up a safe lead with repeated left jabs, stalling off with superior footwork Wood's sporadic attempts to get behind his guard...
...that fine works of art are the rightful property of an elite. But in the U. S. a good contemporary painting would still cost the average citizen half a year's income. A good painting by any one of the famous dead is as far out of his reach as the planet Jupiter. Museums own these things, and most museums try to attract people in to see them. Nothing, however, beats a museum for making the average man uncomfortable on Sunday afternoon...
...looking, and finding him absorbed in something else, some of the boys clamber up the shaky wall, and disregarding the poignant fact that the bricks upon which they seek footholds may crumble away beneath them with unchivalric suddenness, they loop the cable around the highest point they can reach. Then, with the grace and recklessness of mountain goats they skip down to safety, shouting "Okay, John!" to the toothy pug seated in the driver's seat of the truck...
...owners lifted their dogs into the ring and "pitted" them, rousing them to snarling fury by holding them just out of reach of each other. Finally they let them go. The lighter dog, "Red," a natural fighter, closed in fast, grabbed his older opponent by the throat, spun him, slapped him viciously to the mat, and lunged his weight on him. This Red did again & again, to the rising excitement of the spectators, who shrieked "Kill 'im Red!" "Tear 'im apart...
...some mad, one so badly frozen his feet had fallen off, landed on the coast of Siberia where the Lena River pours into the Arctic. Of a party of 14 men, including Commander George Washington De Long, only two came through alive. Nine, after incredible hardships, were almost within reach of help when they starved. Another group of eight was lost in a storm within a day's sail of safety. Ten men under Chief Engineer Melville stumbled on a native village, set out to rescue the others, found only their bodies and the disconnected record of their suffering...