Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flaming torches carried by relays of Indian runners have been moving towards Mexico City from the jungles of southeastern Yucatan and the arid hills of northwestern Sonora. The torches, symbols of freedom, were supposed to reach the capital for the Day of Revolution, Nov. 20. But last fortnight one torch was extinguished. Padding through a little village in Sinaloa, the torchbearer was arrested as an arsonist...
Already production is mounting. American Car & Foundry Co. announced that, between Aug. 2 and Oct. 21, it had delivered 1,000 light (13½-ton) tanks. Its production is scheduled to reach 600 a month before the end of the year. A.C.F. has solved the Army's light-tank problem...
...heart. Only one song, "Everything I Love," incorporated all the cliches of the type which has come to be known generally as the romantic ballad, and it will probably be the hit of the musical. The others are too unorthodox, or too sophisticated or complex in their lyrics, to reach the heights...
Showing they could do other things besides row, a few of the more versatile athletes tossed around a pigskin until it landed in the water out of reach of all. Then turning to crew, they paraded down the float with oars and a boat and later performed racing starts and sprints for the man behind the birdie...
...patrols could give the Germans a powerful screen for an attempted crossing to the Caucasian mainland. Once there they would not only be in a position to wheel around and strike at the Don line from the rear, but could reach out for the oil fields around Maikop, less than 200 miles to the southeast...