Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ahead, Governors Faubus and Almond -close the schools. Make your stupid Southerners stupider...
...Atlantic's New York offices, were promptly funneled out to a list of 2,500 key disk jockeys about the country. Atlantic distributors started setting up deejay hoop contests through the Middle West. Scarcely more than a week after Lyricist Grean landed, his song was on the market ahead of the competition, and the painful fruits of his inspiration were assaulting ears across the land...
...writes, and it still exists today, but the ultimate criterion for a permanent ocean hop is neither political nor financial. "If the U.S. were really sitting pretty, as unchallengeably at the peak of its power as England was, say, in 1830, with 50 invulnerable years as Top Nation ahead, then I should passionately envy American writers. But I do not see their position in those terms at all; I believe that essentially we are in the same boat...
...match from start to finish, papers put out extras on results, and readers who could not tell a doubleton from a double followed the daily point score. Lenz and Jacoby got off to an early lead, but at the end of the 150th rubber the Culbertson partnership was ahead by 8,980 points, and Lenz paid up. That ended any small remaining doubt about whether Culbertson was the U.S.'s No. 1 bridge authority. He and his system reigned supreme from 1932 until the late 1940s, when he was pushed off the throne by a new man with...
...Blackwood signaling could not indicate. So instead of giving the five-heart response to show two aces, he jumped to six clubs. To Sobel, the Goren message was clear: I have the missing aces and the king of hearts, but I also have solid honors in clubs, so go ahead and bid seven if you've got the hearts. She went ahead and bid seven. With Goren's club tricks available for discarding two diamonds and a spade, taking all the tricks was a cinch...