Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson's refreshing display of crisp, penetrating soccer ended all too soon. After going ahead 1-0, Harvard reverted to the kind of indecisive play that made 1978 a season to forget...
Councilor Saundra Graham said the Human Services Committee's original proposal to set aside 25 units of housing for families who run out of fuel is unfair. "They will be jumping ahead of the hundreds of people already waiting on the housing list," Graham said...
Because of the prompt evacuation, the death toll was low: only nine people were known to have died. But many survivors had hair-raising close calls. Ervin Nordmann rushed ahead of the storm to board up his beach house at Gulf Shores, only to be forced to spend the night there when his car would not start. After the howling winds moved on, Nordmann discovered that his house was one of only three still standing out of the 40 that once lined the beach...
...TIME'S circulation had climbed to 250,000, and Larsen and Luce were deep in preparation for another magazine, FORTUNE. They decided to proceed with the new venture, an expensive monthly devoted to business, even after the Crash. In a 1929 communiqué, they declared: "We will go ahead and publish, but we shall be realistic. We shall recognize that this slump may last as long as one year...
...centrifuge. As long as he just took it and didn't struggle, they wouldn't zap all those goddamned blue bolts into the soles of his feet. There were a lot worse things in this world than g-forces ... The main thing was to keep ahead of those blue bolts in the feet!... He started pushing the buttons and throwing the switches like the greatest electric Wurlitzer organist who ever lived...