Word: followed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked to the U.S. for direction in the compounded crises of Berlin, Tibet, Iraq, and at a time of a rising tide of weariness with cold war that might lead the Communists to miscalculate the free world's resolution. He had no need to, and probably would not, follow the precise pattern of Dulles policies; but as long as there was a cold war to fight, he could take a guideline from the London Observer's appraisal of Foster Dulles: "We have come to appreciate how enormously important it is for the man leading the strongest nation...
...state legislature. He knew and liked Herter, and so did the ward's Republican leader, who had roomed with Chris at Harvard. Talked into running, Herter won. Aristocratic, sometimes aloof Christian Herter, a fellow politician once said, "never did have that indefinable something that makes children and dogs follow him down the street"-but he has never lost an election...
...first paddle-wheel satellite will not try for Venus, but will follow a long elliptical orbit that will take it about 30,000 miles from the earth. It will carry various instruments, but its principal job will be to answer promptly when spoken to. If all goes well, it will draw on its stored solar power and speak in a loud radio voice. Then its designers can judge whether a transmitter of this type can be made loud enough to be heard from Venus...
...MOUSY, stoop-shouldered little genius in steel-rimmed spectacles, Pierre Bonnard has sometimes appeared thin and small against the sunset immensity of his impressionist forerunners. But this week a sparkling retrospective exhibition at Washington's Phillips Gallery made plain that Bonnard did not follow the impressionists so much as fulfill them. Bonnard's art is impressionism freed from dazzle, pomp and optical theory for the service of feeling alone...
...universities, Pusey said, are the proper places for pure research, for in them the scientist is free to follow, without the pressure of deadlines, the scholars' "desire to know." From such a viewpoint, the oft-voiced opinion that science is incompatible with the humanistic tradition of Harvard would be greatly undermined...