Word: reached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last third of the directors shows an even broader reach. This third will be made up of men who reflect what Pollack calls "the general interest"-- men like Galbraith and another director, Rev. James O'Donohoe, a dean of students from St. John's Seminary in Brighton...
...want them to know they can't and that it is possible that they could. I want them to try. So I've decided on this collection made into a whole. It is not the whole itself, I guess, but a simple symbol of the whole need to reach the whole. That is what I'm trying to do. I need symbols, but simpler symbols, maybe to get rid of them altogether some day. Happy...
...Pumpkin are you ready? You are my first step into a new life. Perhaps I'll reach the cross alive, not dead. You will take me out of my dreams so that I might live them. But I must tell you something first, I have lied to someone about you. I mentioned farming. Silly, I know, but I through the guy had some similar drop out in mind and I brought it up to make him feel good. But I started feeling lousy. I was a bum, Pumpkin. And I had to tell you before it is accomplished...
Inevitably, as French scientists and technicians have arrived, Kourou has mushroomed from a back-country village to a boom town of 5,000 people. Eventually the population will reach 50,000. In order to build launch pads, schools, power plant, sewer lines, dispensaries and 50 miles of paved road, laborers have already been brought in from Brazil, Martinique, Guadaloupe, Saint Lucia and so many surrounding places that 22 nationalities are now at work together...
Arrayed before Don Vito like vassals at a feudal court are scores of coarsegrained characters who provide the sub-and sub-subplots that enable Puzo to illustrate the broad reach of the Godfather's influence. It is a mark of his power that he commands fierce loyalties because he treats his petitioners with respect-though they range from an obscure paisano seeking revenge for a damaged daughter to a famous Italian-American crooner who needs help to branch out into acting and producing...