Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outset of the second half, the varsity put on its finest show of the season as aggressive team defense and Harrington's set shots sparked a rally which put the quintet 22 points ahead at five-minute mark. Four minutes later, however, the Big Red ran off 18 tallies in a row, tying the score at 56-all on two fouls by Lou Jordan...
...Pete Stanley, at 167, gained the remaining Crimson points in a draw with F & M's Dave Thomas. In the day's most exciting match, Stanley developed a floating rib during the second period. The injury made it difficult for him to breathe, but Stanley hung on and was ahead on a time advantage until the final seconds. Then the referee called the Crimson wrestler for stalling and gave Thomas a point and the draw...
...impressive as the rocket was its timing-accidental or designed. The shot heralded the mission to Washington of Khrushchev's No. 1 aide, Anastas Mikoyan (see Foreign Relations), dramatically topped the U.S.'s recent Atlas successes and put the U.S.S.R. ahead in the prestige-packed race for space. The cosmic rocket, Moscow said in a dozen languages, was the net result of "the creative toil of the whole Soviet people [in] the development of Socialist society in the interests of all progressive mankind...
...missilemen at the Pentagon and Cape Canaveral studied the figures, agreed that the Russians were ahead in terms of weight of payload, propulsion power, general rocket reliability. The U.S.S.R.'s rocket was also the first far-out Russian rocket detected by U.S. tracking systems. Whatever their secret launching-pad failures, the Russians apparently scored with the first rocket they got off the ground...
...First Sea Lord, Mountbatten pushed ahead with the "Dreadnought" project to build a fleet of British nuclear submarines. On his new appointment, many Britons would agree with London's Spectator, which last week congratulated the Tory government "on ignoring prejudice, political considerations and pressure from the popular press and [its] own party in appointing the best...