Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lift Bill Knowland needed. He sailed into Washington with the enthusiasm of a man determined to stay. He was an attentive, fair-minded and active member of the Atomic Energy Committee. He startled the party sages who expected him merely to sit tight, learn the ropes and follow the leaders. He had always had an unusual head for facts & figures. Now he had shown that he also had parliamentary skill...
...this week the lines of conflict had congealed. Iowa's Senator Bourke Hickenlooper, chairman of the investigating committee, set a deadline on new witnesses for this midweek. The outcome of the Lilienthal nomination would be decided on the floor of the Senate by Republicans who would follow either Bob Taft or Arthur Vandenberg. President Truman was confident that they would vote to confirm. Lilienthal supporters thought that, if they had Vandenberg's open support, they would win by a dozen votes...
...young Germans are perhaps the greatest danger. They are restless, hopeless, see themselves and their country without a future. Many follow single-mindedly the vision of a day when they will be called to arms again by either east or west. One put it thus: "I don't care which side it will be; I'll go with either one. I see myself again, running along beside our tanks, waving my men onward, marching, fighting, advancing -eastward or westward, I don't care, but fighting in a war which will make Germany great again...
...things were better (in a material sense). The future is an utter blank. To escape into the past is the only way out. Were the occupation forces to withdraw, a demagogue might find fruitful soil, as Adolf Hitler did 20 years ago. Given a leader, the Germans would again follow, as they have followed before. But today they have no leadership whatever and no goal. If they are given a goal, they may follow democracy. In any case, as long as the occupation forces remain and are alert, Naziism and militarism will remain what it is now: a dream...
...Neisse rivers, where Moscow insists the Potsdam agreement permanently located it, or whether the line shall be moved a few hundred miles further to the east, toward the old, pre-war German frontier. This latter proposal was advanced by Mr. Byrnes, and Secretary Marshall last week pledged himself to follow the Stuttgart policies straight down the line...