Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pride vindicated." At the Paris conference, recalled London's conservative Daily Telegraph, "Mr. Dulles stood out from his other ministerial colleagues like a gnarled tree stump, incongruously recalling the hard winds of winter among a bed of spring flowers all heralding the soft days of sunshine ahead. But the sun failed to shine. When the ministers met this week in Copenhagen, therefore, it was the gnarled tree stump that seemed congruous and seasonal, with the spring flowers looking and sounding sadly out of place...
...during the rehearsal of a concerto, Van rose from the keyboard and walked out. "I called a halt to the music," says Johnson, "and wondered what we could have done to upset the kid." Just then Van looked back over his shoulder from the wings and drawled: "Go right ahead. Ah'm just goin' to the slot machine for a candy bar." He can be considerate to a fault. In Moscow, one of his American friends had to lock him into his hotel room before he dropped from exhaustion receiving the glad-handers and autograph seekers who streamed...
...Princeton's Lake Carnegie, Yale's powerful eight pulled up to the finish of the 1¾-mile course half a length ahead of Cornell, 1¼ lengths in front of Princeton, was clocked in a lake record 8:35.8. ¶ In the eighth race at Massachusetts' Raynham dog track, the greyhounds were faster than the $2 hunch players hoped for. They caught the mechanical bunny, and quit racing to chew on the fur-covered teaser. Track officials took an even worse licking: they had to return $18,345 in bets...
...those still in a bearish frame of mind, Roy L. Reierson, vice president of and chief economist for Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co., argued that the leveling out of the economy is still ahead...
Although Yale was in the lead most of the way, the Crimson shell was never far behind. The varsity jumped ahead at the start but the Elis closed the gap in the first quarter of a mile and slowly ground out a lead. With one half mile to go they were ahead a half a length...