Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coin ten times and it turned up heads every time," said the Secretary of State, "what would be the probability that it would turn up tails on the eleventh flip?" The study, he said, had helped him in diplomacy. How he reckoned his chances in the eleventh flip just ahead...
...understanding should prove genuine and lasting. And the education of the Asian neutrals was being paid for in Tibetan blood. But if the moment of truth had, in fact, come for the "uncommitted" Afro-Asian nations, Communist imperialism might be in for tougher times in the years ahead...
...major Russian advance in the cold war. With the influence it now wields in Baghdad, the U.S.S.R. has achieved the major role it has so long sought in Middle Eastern affairs. But with that new status, Moscow has also acquired new problems. If the U.S.S.R. decides to push ahead with an attempt to establish an undisguised People's Democracy in Iraq, the Soviets must assume that they will alienate all other Arab nations, inherit the scapegoat position of "imperialist oppressors" that the Western powers have long occupied in Middle Eastern minds...
...front Graham Russell from Scotland and Jack Butterfield, a Canadian, provide power and experience, and with the remainder of the team all showing eagerness and ability, it can look ahead to its next six games with confidence...
...long run, Harvard men hurt themselves by not doing the reading. Girls are always "miles ahead in competence and conscientiousness," Morris states. This fact shows up on examinations. Morris explains that he always grades blue books anonymously, folding back the covers so he cannot see who wrote the exam. Yet he can almost invariably tell whether the writer is a girl or a boy. One factor is writing ability, which tends to favor the girls. Another is the fact that, due to difference in study habits, boys' examinations tend to be "uneven." A Harvard student often "hits" one essay question...