Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are certain leaders in the government of that great country who are exceedingly anxious to have an under standing with us. I'll spend my time in the next four years to reach an under standing on a basis that peace is possible with all nations. I know it can be done." The President's remark may have been meant to raise hopes. What it did was raise questions. Was there "some new sceneshifting going on behind the Iron Curtain? Who were the "certain leaders" in Russia who wanted to end the Cold war? The President...
...President of the U.S. tells his people that he is going to spend the next four years trying to reach an understanding, and that there are Soviet leaders who are anxious for that understanding (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), confusion and division will result, and these in turn will breed phenomena such as Garry Davis...
...already become Fridolin's biggest hit in his 11 years as an actor. Its run to date has passed the Fridolinons' best (53 performances), seems certain to reach the loo-performance mark before it goes on the road in French Canada. Its success has also brought Manhattan's Theatre Guild agents to Montreal with an offer of about $3,000 a week (on a percentage basis) for an English version for Broadway, with Fridolin, who speaks fluent English, in the lead...
...still bothered by two items of tournament atmosphere: the click of cameras and the spectators who jingle pocket change. "The change-jinglers," he complains, "always wait until you reach the top of your backswing, then there's a silence like a kitchen clock stopping. It wouldn't bother me if they kept right on jingling...
...glittering parade of radically changed postwar models-all square, squat and as alike in appearance as cans in a crate. Out rolled more than 5,200,000 cars and trucks, about 8% more than 1947. The textile industry spun out 13,621 billion yards of cloth, enough to reach 311 times around the earth. Out of the whirring factories came 540 million pairs of nylons (10 pairs for every U.S. woman), 4,710,000 washing machines, 27.3 million radios, toasters and irons, more than 80 million auto tires...