Word: reached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, commuting from Washington to Cambridge to consult with faculty members on urban affairs and deliver a series of biweekly lectures. In accepting the assignment, Gardner explained that he was "attracted by M.I.T.'s resources, commitment, and very broad reach in the urban field...
...defense's central point is that the five are charged merely with speaking against the war and the draft, and not with committing substantive crimes. "So long as they are discussing public matters, no matter how vigorously, and so long as they do not reach incitement (to break the law), they are protected," said William P. Homans Jr., Ferber's lawyer...
CAESAR AT THE RUBICON: A PLAY ABOUT POLITICS, by Theodore H. White. A fine political journalist turns to ancient history for an engaging study of "the way men use other men to reach their goals...
Like two boxers at the opening bell, the U.S. and North Viet Nam warily circled the ring, each testing the other's reach. Each side was determined to yield nothing in advance, and each was probing for an opening that would lead to a position of strength. Lyndon Johnson characteristically described the situation in the midst of a conversation in his White House office. Striking a prizefighter's pose, he said: "I'm holding my left hand open and out in front of me, saying, 'Come on, let's talk...
Lytton's predicament arises partly from events beyond his grasp, partly from his own reach. He has been reaching ever since he arrived in California with $30 in his pocket in the late '30s. He wrote radio-and screenplays ("I'm a lot prouder of some of the mortgages I've written," he says), then took on an advertising job for a mortgage broker. Later, when he moved into S&Ls, Lytton quickly proved himself a master of theatrical dazzle as he wooed savings accounts. He held art auctions and book fairs, gave away coffee...