Word: reaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither side is likely to underestimate the difficulty involved in reaching an agreement. India feels that Kashmir is rightfully hers despite an overwhelming Moslem population--the Hindu ruler preferred to stay out of Mohammedan Pakistan. She claims that the invading Punjab tribesmen have the backing of the Pakistan, Government and points out that the raiders have recently used light artillery and are singularly well equipped. Pakistan naturally feels that Kashmir is wrongfully in the enemy camp, but at the same time claims that the fault lies not with her, but with an Indian which is charged with trying to ruin...
...London, it tried, although it failed, to reach its absolute climax. In the cities of the world, people raised their awed faces to the skies while air power thundered over Manila, Singapore, Sevastopol, Cologne, Schweinfurt, Regensburg, Hamburg and Berlin. Over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, air power very nearly did reach its final aim of total annihilation; in those two cities, 125,000 Japanese perished in two clock ticks...
...commissioners, being peaceful U.S. citizens brought up to believe that minding one's business was the surest way to peace, reached this conclusion only with the greatest reluctance. But obviously, neither minding one's business nor trying to reach a pacific accord among nations was enough...
...Blue Shield. And that is only a beginning, announced Roy E. Larsen, president of Manhattan's United Hospital Fund† and former director of the New York Blue Cross. Blue Cross membership increased 15% last year; on that basis, Larsen said, it would take only eight years to reach 100,000,000 members; at Blue Shield's present rate of growth, membership would exceed 30,000,000 in three years...
...only meaningful area of existence is man's inner, inviolate consciousness, in which the pleasures of self-absorption are unbounded. Subjected to six months' solitary confinement because of an early attempt to escape, Kaspan learned to live so completely in his interior self-where he "could reach frontiers of consciousness beyond the outermost limits of contemporary ideas"-that he begged his Nazi captors to let him remain in his solitary hole...