Word: followed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would have to follow a "regime of ordered work activity, interspersed with regular amounts of exercise, recreation and rest." This meant that some of the less vital duties that he had been performing, including some speeches, ceremonial dinners, receptions and correspondence, would be reduced. "All of this means also that neither for renomination nor re-election would I engage in extensive traveling and in whistle-stop speaking, normally referred to as barnstorming. I had long ago made up my mind, before I ever dreamed of a personal heart attack, that I could never as President of all the people conduct...
...other knickknacks for his friends and family. Over the years he has established a pleasant puttering partnership with his next-door neighbor and longtime friend, Ralph Davis, a lighting company inspector. Davis plays an Art Carney support to Hall's Jackie Gleason, and their weekend rituals usually follow the same pattern. On Saturday mornings, until recently, Hall would get up around 5 a.m. and look over at Davis' house to see if the kitchen light was on. If he decided his friend was out of bed, Hall would go next door, and over a pot of strong coffee...
...news conference Benson emphasized that there will be no cotton dumping. The Commodity Credit Corp. has sold through bids the last of a million bales of lower-grade cotton under a special program announced last year. Bids far below the world market price are refused. The CCC will follow the same sales technique with the 7,000,000 bales of more desirable upland cotton; later it may also dispose of another 6,900,000 bales held against loans. Cotton exports, 2,750,000 bales this year, will be upped gradually to a hoped-for 5,000,000 bales a year...
Britain's Ministry of Supply released the first films of British ground-to-air guided missiles in action. Shot at the trial range at Aberporth, Wales, the films follow the launching and flight of the experimental missile, which reputedly can travel at 1,000 m.p.h. at heights up to 60,000 ft. The missiles are fueled with alcohol and liquid oxygen and presumably controlled by electronic computers on the ground. The filmed sequence, shown last week on NBC, starts (bottom left) as the missile heads skyward, powered by wraparound booster rockets, which begin to fall off (upper left...
...three agreed that the club should hold another election in which a full quorum would be present. Eighteen of the club's members constitute a quorum. Perlstein and Williams, in the event he should be elected to office, agreed to "follow the constitution" in future actions of the club...