Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engine picked up again, and we were just able to reach the English coast and make a forced landing in a field, ushered in by an R.A.F. night fighter...
They flew in, skimming the roof tops. One pilot found that the only way to reach his target was between a high radio mast on the quay and the ship's mast. "I had to bank to port to get between them and while still at an angle of 45° we threw bombs at the ship's side, one at least hitting the ship with a smack." Still hedgehopping, the attackers fled, leaving growing clouds of smoke rising from the ships at the wharves...
...Fulmer (85%-of-parity) Act; like "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina, who has already tangled with Henderson; like Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma, who combines a farm constituency with a weakness for greenback schemes. Such men were already talking opposition to any price control until farm prices reach 100% of parity, or even more. But since parity is a variable figure (related to a cost-of-living index) and since higher farm prices mean a higher cost of living, parity is a mirage, and an effort to reach it is likely to result in a price spiral...
Norman will reach the age limit (70) for Bank of England directors next October. Heretofore London's City had assumed that the limit would be extended for his benefit. Last week this was no longer a good bet. The failure of Britain's early war effort was followed by purges in Army and industry; perhaps a financial purge was next...
...begins in a small, intolerant Scottish village. Francis Chisholm felt an early affection for the rough, bluff, competent fishermen and workers of whom his father was one. But when Francis was nine, descendants of Covenanters stoned the elder Chisholm nearly to death because he was a Catholic. Trying to reach home afterwards on a slippery bridge across a flooded river, Father and Mother Chisholm were drowned...