Word: followed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that foreign policy decisions should be made on the basis of opinion polls, we might as well decide now to surrender our position of world leadership to the Communists and become a second-rate nation. It is the responsibility of a leader to lead public opinion-not just to follow it. He must get all the facts before making a decision, and then he must develop support for that decision among the people by making the facts known to them...
...illness. Instead, their digestive tracts were rebelling against their owners' abuse-with hastily wolfed meals, rich and heavily spiced foods, often washed down with alcohol and-cured in tobacco smoke. Many compounded the mischief by harmful self-medication, especially with laxatives. For these, as well as for the follow-up care of the more serious cases with active ulcers (which might require surgery or at least a couple of weeks in the hospital), Dr. Jordan laid down a series of rules which have become famous...
...also glad that Mr. Titcomb thought their production an artistic success. What I would question here is not his opinion but his logic. It does not follow that, if the same exacting play had been produced ten years before by a totally different group, it would have been equally successful. What it would have been like, for better or worse, we shall never know. But we may well regard the Theater Workshop's change of mind as a responsible act of self-criticism. Harry Levin, Professor of English and Comparative Literature...
...against destruction of the Southern public school system is the peculiar moderation of many politicians such as Faubus. It is the moderation of inertia and short-sightedness. Even as they failed to make the schools equal, in order to keep them separate, so they now will probably fail to follow their rhetoric to its logical consequences...
...DeSoto, a face-lifted model with a new grille and more of the Chrysler Imperial cast than the '58s. Though Chrysler did not reveal the price because the DeSoto will not roll out of the showrooms for another month, Detroit insiders said most automakers will follow Buick's lead: some decreases and some small increases...