Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mediterranean. And the key to Gibraltar is Spain. England and Germany are fighting for the seduction of Spain; England with food for the immediate present, Germany with promises of future prosperity and aggrandizement. But if Germany loses this skirmish, she may by-pass Spain and reach for the coast of West Africa, where she would be in a position to cut the Cape-route lifeline and draw the cord of strangulation tighter about Britain's neck...
...Tsar. And since Bulgaria waited another six weeks before joining the Axis, his language must have been somewhat effective. It was during his stay in Sofia that someone pinched Wild Bill's passport (TIME, Feb. 3). But the papers the pickpocket wanted were where he could not reach them...
...challenger than Gus Dorazio, Red Burman, Al McCoy or the half-dozen other second-raters who have served as punching bags for the Champ. Patterned on the lines of Primo Camera, Giant Simon, a stand-up boxer (6 ft. 4 in.), had nothing up his forearm but the longest reach (83 in.) and the largest mitts (14½ in.) in the fight game...
...scattered outposts lies a web of big private systems, covering a far wider area than the famed British grid. Eleven of them have combined assets of well over $400,000,000. But compared with Grand Coulee and Bonneville, the Northwest's private power resources are minuscule. When they reach their combined ultimate capacity of 2,438,400 kilowatts, the Bonneville Power Administration (which administers the output of both dams) will be the biggest dispenser of electricity in the world...
Accordingly, they agreed with the IBS that the whole venture would only be an experiment, which, assuming that it might never reach practical realization, would still, on the one hand, give the IBS valuable experience in selling radio advertisements and, on the other hand, would be a good impetus to the Workshop's script department to turn out better programs...