Word: reach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knowing it is absurd. This is a far cry from the vaulting heroes of past tragedy. The tragic hero must bear full responsibility for his acts, and that is what makes him a thing of the past. Modern intellectual man sees himself as the plaything of powers beyond his reach and shrugs along with Hamlet: "The time is out of joint." The modern mind reduces tragedy to accident and prefers to believe in chance, which is a parody of destiny...
...Republican nominee for treasurer even if he did not sign the papers in time; 10,000 signatures would place Fernandes' name on the primary ballot. Furthermore, Fernandes' chances of election were greatly increased by his absence. The peculiar details of his endorsement and of the frantic Republican efforts to reach him were widely publicized. Overnight Fernandes became known at least as well as Democrat Robert Q. Crane, the incumbent Treasurer. But the realization that the sudden boost to Fernandes' candidacy was due primarily to a strange set of circumstances rather than to any pronouncements of his own still embarrased some...
...reach the top ranks of American business, it helps to have a college degree - and it helps even more to have one from a good Ivy League school. A survey of the boards of directors of 52 of the nation's largest corporations shows that 83% of the directors are college grads - and that 36% attended Harvard, Yale or Princeton...
...winsome old lady who wandered out daily for two quarts of beer, and deftly navigated icy winter streets by sliding from parked car to telephone pole to parked car. Then there was Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, the late ace recruiter of new talent for the Chicago syndicate. "He could reach into the backwoods and find talented machine-gun players the way George Halas sometimes spots star material in small colleges...
Really enterprising trolleyers could get aboard in Maine and, by switching from one connecting interurban to the next, go all the way to Delaware, or, starting from upstate New York, they could reach Wisconsin...