Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Precious Asset. When Lodge first went to the U.N., the occasional lapses into aloofness that damaged his Senate career annoyed some of his fellow delegates. He was distant with his staffers, sometimes plunged ahead without advising them or seeking their advice. But Lodge has grown impressively during his five years at the U.N. Despite his early success, Cabot Lodge counts among the late bloomers, those who keep on growing at ages when many men's characters and opinions freeze into rigidity. Today, a mellowed, warmer, more tactful and more patient Cabot Lodge is a superlative operator...
...many Southern political leaders, and by this newspaper as a matter of principle, has been rejected by the mass of voters in this upper Southern state and is now clearly untenable for any man in public life anywhere in the region. A period of struggle and turmoil lies ahead...
...CERTIFICATION for Boeing 707 is well ahead of schedule, will be completed by CAA about Sept. 1. Pan American will start first scheduled flights two months later...
...executing the decision to demobilize most of the 3,300,000-man Navy fast -"boys home for Christmas." Holloway did the irksome job in chin-out style, standing memorably against all half-threats and pleadings from Capitol Hill and elsewhere to get favored constituents home ahead of their time. One day, when a U.S. Senator brought in a friend to ask a favor, Holloway said in the lawyer's tone that Congressmen understood and admired: "I look to you, Senator, to help me maintain my probity." Holloway added afterward: "No Congressman ever failed to react to such a plea...
This is how Nikita Khrushchev saluted his fellow Communists at a Polish embassy reception in Moscow last week: "It is a good time we all live in. The ice has broken, as it does during spring flood; everything is in turmoil. Everything moves ahead in its historical development. Vain are the efforts to stem the liberation struggle...