Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rules of the game, Yarborough should be far and away ahead in next week's Democratic primary because he is well known from four unsuccessful statewide campaigns prior to his election to the Senate. But Yarborough forces have grown unaccountably edgy as the primary nears, are alibiing in advance that a man with Bill Blakley's money could even buy an upset...
...tradition, Candidate Adolfo López Mateos of the invincible Party of Revolutionary Institutions could not vote for himself for President last week-but most other Mexicans did. Running ahead of his party, the personable former Minister of Labor got at least 80% of more than 10 million votes, to assure himself six years in office. Women, voting for the first time, made the election the biggest in Mexican history; it was also the most peaceable, with only one party worker killed during the campaign and one on election...
...leading U.S. exponent of Zen, the main obstacle to the achievement of Zen's peace is an inability to purge themselves of the need for self-justification. This urge to prove oneself right "has always jiggled the Chinese sense of the ludicrous." The Chinese rated human-heartedness ahead of righteousness, felt that one could not be right without also being wrong. "At the roots of Chinese life there is a trust in the good-and-evil of one's own nature which is peculiarly foreign to those brought up with the chronic uneasy conscience of the Hebrew-Christian...
...York Businessman John Matthews back in 1951 and fitted out for cruising, Vim had been refurbished and reconditioned for a try at the Defender trials. Young (24) Donald Matthews brashly matched tactics with Briggs Cunningham, beat him to the starting line, and brought Vim home a whole minute ahead of Columbia. The second race petered out in a slatting calm. But before the committee called the whole thing off, Weatherly had shown itself a ghoster to be reckoned with, leading Vim by an estimated five minutes...
...boats were still far from tuned up, and much tinkering and jockeying still lay ahead before the Defender was chosen. These early races, explained one New York Yacht Club member, were "just light sparring or shadowboxing...