Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tribute to Charles de Gaulle: "I will say this: I happen to be one of those people that liked him." And within hours of De Gaulle's accession, the White House put out a statement that wrapped up the President's devout hopes for the difficult days ahead: "We are gratified that the French crisis is now being resolved. General de Gaulle has assumed heavy responsibilities at a critical juncture in French history. We look forward to the continuation of the intimate and friendly relations which have always characterized our long association with France...
...partly it was the sheer weight of fact: farm prosperity, signs that the recession is easing, realization that the Government faces a deficit of $10 billion or more in the fiscal year ahead, overseas rumblings showing that 1958 is no year to retreat toward isolationism by building higher tariff fences and slashing foreign aid. After pondering the facts, plus the sentiments of the voters back home, many a congressional man in motion switched direction to follow his followers...
...Pavilion in Brussels. Winner of the A.I.A. Gold Medal, reserved as an accolade for a lifetime's accomplishment: a leading Chicago architect and modern pioneer, John Wellborn Root, 70, whose glass-façaded A. O. Smith Engineering Building in Milwaukee, designed in 1928, was 25 years ahead of the field...
...flowing beards and the women in bright peasant dresses, were sailing last week on the latest leg of a religious odyssey that has taken them halfway round the world. Behind them lay 300 years of persecution, an exodus from Russia across Asia, a bitter exile in Communist China. Ahead was a free, pioneering life in the forests of Brazil...
...Asia and Europe, but within six months five teams were in China, ready to follow the caravan track north and west into the Gobi Desert. There was no need for road maps; there were no roads. There was no sure fuel supply; what was available had been hopefully shipped ahead by camel. But in Peking on the rainy morning of June 10, 1907, one of the roughest car rides since the automobile engine drew its first breath began as casually as a clutch of college boys starting off for a weekend .at Wellesley...