Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hard Game. The occasion might have excused considerably more forensic embroidery, but Manuel Quezon had no illusions about the tasks ahead of him. As he turned from the crowd, walked back through the Legislative Building, the Herald Tribune man thought he "looked like a football player after a hard game...
...Italy's main army of the north with its spearhead at Makale, they had gone where no white men had ever gone before, skirting the blazing Danakil Desert, then up over the bitter cold highlands facing the Derdega Mountains. One thing General Mariotti knew: Degiac Kassa Sebat was ahead of him with an indefinite number of well-armed Ethiopians and he would attack as soon as the Italian column got near enough. The gorge seemed a likely place, for a ridge ran straight across it about 200 yards ahead...
Optimistic this season is Harry Cowles, coach of the varsity squash team, With an interesting schedule ahead, he expects his men to finish in the winning column...
...Kondylis that he, pro-Italian, Dictator and Kingmaker, had made the worst possible choice of King for his purposes. Of mixed Danish-German-Russian royal blood, George II may not be brainy but he has a great deal of what it takes to be King. For the difficult maneuvering ahead he can count on much quiet British help and the Greeks are used to being over-awed by the warships of George V, the "Sailor King." To George II furious Greek Republicans issued a manifesto addressed to "George Glucksburg" and stating "you are only the leader and tool...
...humble workers take it on the chin for a couple of acts, then stage a strike during which the hero is killed. The finale still finds the strike unsettled, but homegoing playgoers are given the impression that a desirable proletarian militancy has been aroused and better days are probably ahead for the workers of the world...