Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour and 45 minutes later, a few words edited to his liking, the President told Dulles to go ahead and release the historic 800-word document. Its clearly phrased message: the U.S. would fight if the Chinese Communists should move in on Quemoy, Little Quemoy or the Matsus...
...were on the Chinese Communist side," summed up "Anonymous Spokesman" Dulles, "I would think very hard before I went ahead on the face of this statement." He also offered the diplomatic carrot: if the Reds would renounce force, the U.S. was willing to continue efforts to negotiate a Formosan cease-fire (the subject of 54 of the 73 Geneva sessions), would consider Peking's claims, "however ill-founded as we may deem them...
...that would make Estes Kefauver seem like a subway straphanger. "Hey," he cried to no one in particular. "I feel a speech coming on." Candidate Brown was in his element, doing what he knows and likes best. He was being just plain Pat, making himself liked-and running well ahead of the opposition...
...small, one-way alley officially reserved for der Alte himself but informally open to any of his ministers. When Bonn Traffic Officer Siegfried Hahlbohm, 24, failed to give Strauss's car an immediate signal into the alley, the impatient minister ordered his driver, Leonhard Kaiser, to go ahead anyway. Kaiser did so, thereby forcing the conductor of an oncoming trolley car on the main thoroughfare to slam on his emergency brake. As Strauss's grey BMW sedan screeched off toward the chancellery, Good Cop Hahlbohm dutifully noted down its license number...
...department store sales picked up around the U.S. (see State of Business), one startling figure was reported last week from New Jersey's bustling Passaic-Hudson-Bergen county area: its department store sales for the first seven months raced 48% ahead of a year ago. Jersey's bounce showed what happens when shopping centers move into suburban communities. The Passaic-Hudson-Bergen surge is due mostly to two highwayside shopping centers that have been built in the past year, less than a mile apart...