Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passages which contradict each other in supporting and denouncing slavery. But in the end it is a misuse of Scripture that brings on Savior Vesy's end: "All these twelve years," he muses, "I give my people hope with the story of Moses. I never tell them Moses never reach the Promised Land...
Since a decision must be made soon on whether the '52 Red Book will be published, the Council asked Detjen to determine by next week's meeting just how much investigation will be needed and how long it will take to reach a final recommendation on the question...
...Former National Youth Administrator Aubrey Williams, now publisher of the Southern Farmer, called on Henry Wallace to "repudiate the [Progressive Party] and come on back home." His reason: Wallace "is being used to weaken and defeat the efforts of the U.S. to reach an understanding with Russia...
...next day, the U.S. State Department published a massive 77-page "white paper." Compiled day by day as the secret negotiations with Moscow wore on, it revealed the remarkable story of an earnest, untiring and utterly futile attempt to reach understanding with Soviet Russia. The only possible inference: Russia did not want to reach an understanding, and was simply stalling for time...
...1860s, the Bolivian dictator Mariano Melgarejo tied the British minister on to a burro, face tailward, rode him three times around La Paz's principal plaza because he had slighted the dictator's mistress. Queen Victoria, on being told that British naval guns could never reach landlocked Bolivia, seized a pen, crossed the country off the map, saying: "Bolivia no longer exists...