Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legal career was mainly defending murderers and bandits and frightening district magistrates with his caustic tongue. One magistrate, hearing that Patel was expanding his practice, moved his court to a town out of Patel's reach. In later years Gandhi found in Patel "motherly qualities" that eyes less inspired than the Mahatma's never saw. Today, Patel is coldly pleased when his enemies call him "the Iron Dictator" and "Herr Vallabhbhai." Enemies and friends tell an anecdote of his criminal law days. He had just put his wife in a Bombay hospital, returned to Ahmedabad to argue...
Ballet Society intends to work out new ballets at its own pace, with no need to rush onstage with them. For the first two or three years it will not try to reach a big public, will make no tours. It plans about four performances a year, open to subscribers only ($15 and up). Last week, in Manhattan's Hunter College Playhouse, subscribers saw their second show. There were two new ballets by Balanchine. Critics (whose papers had to buy them memberships to get them in) liked best his linear Divertimento, had kind words for Renard...
...stood there unmolested and unreachable while his four teammates hustled around the court. Whenever his four little helpers captured the ball, they heaved it down to Max, who grabbed it in his great leathery hands and dumped it in the 10-ft.-high basket (he could jump to reach 11 ft.). It didn't seem fair, and after a while the crowd began to boo, even though most of them were Walnut fans. The coach took Max out for a quarter to give the other team a chance. In the final quarter, Max missed one basket. Said he, afterward...
...court proceedings, defense attorney Harland B. Newton said that Parkhurst, with the aid of his family, would attempt to make good the stolen checks. Investigators have so far found a total of $2789 worth of checks taken by Parkhurst, but stated that their search was continuing and might reach...
...Voice. Ep Hoyt had adopted Bonfils' proprietary feeling about the Rocky Mountain area (the Post calls itself "The Voice of the Rocky Mountain Empire"). Soon he will have legmen in all of the empire's 13 states. Come the days of unlimited paper, Hoyt expects to reach unimpeded as far as Canada to the north, Mexico to the south; east until he bumps the Kansas City Star, west until he shares newsstand space with the workmanlike Salt Lake City Telegram...