Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After we came out of our mother's body, we began to reach out, little by little, toward the world . . . running back toward the pink egg when we grew too afraid . . . or when the steps came too close together or seemed too steep...
...Laval, death was like a very messy bus accident. He was lying on his cot as officials approached the cell to take him. Before they could reach him, he slipped a poison capsule into his mouth, rolled writhing to the floor...
...Fewest batters to reach first base in one full game-2 against Chicago's Passeau (third game...
...speed, the ships were able to cast off and head for sea again in seven days. Reason for the haste: they hoped to be the first ships in the Antarctic for the opening, next month, of the first full-blown whaling season in five years. And the first to reach the ice-and whale-filled seas, comparatively unhunted during the war, should make a heavy killing. This year they would not have to worry about U.S. competition. There wasn...
...improved technique of artificial insemination allows one bull to do the work of 80 or more. So many more bull calves are now turned into veal before they reach maturity. In Nebraska, bulls have decreased by 3,000 since science stepped in to cuckold them. Some 20,000 Nebraska cows were test-tube bred last year and a statewide program is aiming...