Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until he ran for the Senate against colorless, never-defeated Republican Incumbent J. Glenn Beall, 64. D'Alesandro got off to an early lead in the Baltimore returns, but despite the overwhelming victory of Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate J. Millard Tawes, Beall (rhymes with well) ran far enough ahead of D'Alesandro in the counties to cop the victory...
...before a sparse crowd of 3,500, hardly half filling Baltimore's cavernous Fifth Regiment Armory to hear his final campaign speech that the President spelled out his two-year hopes in detail. Promised he solemnly: "Looking ahead, we will...
Gripping the rostrum with both hands, Nixon spoke earnestly, looking to heavily Democratic Alaska's future through Republican eyes. "There is a great age ahead," he said. "Alaska has had 90 years of paternalism and bureaucracy, some of it good and much of it necessary in a frontier area. But the progress of Alaska in the future will be only as great as bureaucracy and dependence upon the Federal Government in Washington decrease and the opportunity for individual enterprise increases...
...last day of October, a day that had loomed large on the calendar of those who hope for eventual negotiated disarmanent, the U.S. and Britain stopped tests of nuclear weapons. But most of the hopes had already gone glimmering before Russian threats that the U.S.S.R would go right ahead testing nuclear weapons-forcing the U.S. and Britain to resume...
Indispensable Man. In the midst of such predatory baying and growling. King Hussein went blithely ahead with his plans to fly off in his own de Havilland Dove via Kuwait. Teheran and Istanbul to Rome, where he will pick up a car to drive to Switzerland. His brother. Crown Prince Mohammed, flew to Switzerland from Amman two weeks ago; his mother, daughter and sister and other brother are already there-leaving not one member of his immediate family in Jordan, and all affairs of his kingdom in the hands of a regency council of honorable nonentities...