Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Self-Acceleration. In the far north, Marshal Govorov woke up the sector above Lake Peipus with an attack which overran Narva, which the Germans had held since Govorov drove them back from Leningrad. This action extended the active front to a reach of 800 miles from the Carpathians to the Gulf of Finland. The stretch had been excruciating for the Germans. It was possible that the Soviet high command had not originally intended to stretch it so fast, to keep so much of it in motion at one time, but-always quick to exploit an unexpected weakness-had been encouraged...
...pastoral calling I shall spend more time contacting men. I shall reach them at their work. I need them. They need the Church...
Minneapolis Judge W. W. Bardwell, who thought that by issuing the injunction he had averted a strike threat, was as angry as Mr. Hubbard. He promptly is sued a warrant for Boss Petrillo's arrest. But the warrant could not be served-Boss Petrillo was well out of reach, in Chicago...
...went to Washington as a Bureau of Ordnance stenographer, first worked for Franklin Roosevelt when he ran for Vice President in 1920. Gracious, efficient "Missy" stayed on, checking his accounts, presiding at the tea table when Mrs. Roosevelt was absent, deciding which appointment seekers and telephone callers should reach him, answering much of his personal correspondence, sitting with him evenings to take down any vagrant thought. Her voting address was the Roosevelt home in Hyde Park; her home, a third floor suite of the White House...
Petty Cash. It must have been with truly heroic restraint that Mr. Zanuck kept Miss Grable out of Wilson itself: he has put in just about everything else in reach. Messrs. Zanuck, Lamar Trotti (who wrote the screen play), Henry King (who directed it) and their vast corps of experts stopped short of resinking the Lusitania, refighting World War I and rebuilding postwar Paris. But they did produce replicas of the White House and the U.S. House chamber whose accuracy will bring gasps of admiration from Washingtonians...