Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven states now include child spacing in their public-health programs for maternal care, for those who lack access to private physicians. When all states bring this service within the reach of all married couples who want and need it, the criminal abortionist will be out of business...
...Specific questions must be faced without delay. ... Unless the British and American Governments reach joint decisions now there will be no chance of a joint guardianship of the peace...
Attack. A fortnight ago it was relatively quiet along the 500-mile reach of the Ukrainian front. But the peace was deceptive. By night Red scouts wormed their way across No Man's Land. In staff dugouts, officers had charted the position of every German battery, every pillbox and tank trap...
...yearly on the deal, although "it had no financial resources and only the most meager experience and talent." Typical result: although the magnesium-bearing ore was over 200 miles distant, the plant was so poorly located that ore had to be shipped by rail some 950 miles to reach it. Cost of the plant rocketed from $70,000,000 to $133,000,000 ($1.81 per lb. of magnesium capacity...
...there are touches, tender beyond the reach of invention. A boy who has withdrawn from the fight stands by a tree, exhausted, pinching the bridge of his nose. A young man holds gauze to his shot mouth and retires from the battle with precisely the hunched, half-stumbling gait of an athlete taken out of a game. There are two moments of greatness: the slow, tentative wading ashore of the relief troops on the fourth day (no camera recorded the slaughter of 300 to 400 on the second); the faces of the marines as they watch the flag rise...