Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from-mild 1955 heart attack, the question arose about whether to cancel orders he had put in with his San Antonio tailor for a blue suit and a brown one. Muttered Lyndon, who knew that doctors gave him only a fifty-fifty chance to live: "Let him go ahead with the blue one; we can use that no matter what happens...
...Dick Russell who swung all his great Senate weight to make Lyndon Baines Johnson the Democratic leader of the U.S. Senate in 1953. Yet it was against Russell's warning that Johnson made his first major move as leader: Johnson wanted to leapfrog promising freshman Senators ahead of their seniors onto the most sought-after committees, e.g., Montana's Mike Mansfield to Foreign Relations and Missouri's Stuart Symington to Armed Services. Cautioned Dick Russell: "You are dealing with the most sensitive thing in the Senate-seniority." But Russell was not quite right: the most sensitive thing...
Pointing out that Mister Sam's Capitol renovation will be "pushed ahead irrespective of Senate protests, without House hearings and in utter disregard of public opinion and the judgment of some of the most prominent architects in America today," the long-suffering New York Times last week exclaimed: "Sam Rayburn doesn't own the Capitol...
...weather turned bad again, but the caravan wound without disaster down a glacier on the edge of the ice cap. The Sno-Cats crossed the last crevasses in a swirling blizzard, and reached fairly level ice. The buildings of Scott Station loomed ahead on the white horizon, with their promise of hot baths and letters from home. When the first congratulations were over. Dr. Fuchs admitted that he had made one miscalculation. He had estimated in advance that he would need 100 days to cross Antarctica; he had made...
When a re-entry body hits the atmosphere at 13,000 m.p.h.. a shock wave forms a few inches ahead of it. Between the wave and the body is a fast-flowing layer of air heated to something like 12,000° F. At this temperature about 2% of the air's atoms are ionized, i.e., broken into electrons and positively charged ions. The mixture, which physicists call a plasma, is a conductor of electricity...