Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flushing Meadow, no one knew whether U.N. would approve partition. A two-thirds vote among nations voting in the full Assembly was needed to win final approval. In the middle of the week, defeat of the partition plan seemed probable. Nations like Haiti, the Philippines, Liberia, Greece, which normally follow the U.S. lead, said that they would vote no. Both the U.S. and Russia (together for the first time on a major issue) supported partition. But the very fact of U.S. Russian agreement seemed to free many smaller nations from the necessity of taking a stand...
Month by month throughout the U.S., millions of college graduates follow the careers of their classmates in their alumni bulletins. For the most part the notices are terse and wholesome: "Mary Smith, '42, had a daughter last month." But last week members of the class of 1925 read a different kind of story in the Wisconsin Alumnus. Pieced together from details unearthed by investigators for the U.S. Military Government in Germany, it told what had happened to their classmate Mildred Fish...
...called because they follow the reform inaugurated in the 17th Century by the Abbot de Rancé in the Abbey La Trappe, in Normandy...
...Kirk David's Dad handed out some advice: "Take all the time you want until you're 30, to learn about what you are going to do from the time you are 30 to 50, so you can do what you want to do after you're 50." The follow-through to this counsel has been near letter-perfect. Comfortably settled since 1942 in the top job at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Dean David staggered his career with eight years of teaching and learning at the School and fifteen subsequent years of fortune-accumulating in Manhattan financial circles...
Rabinovitz said last night, "I will follow orders and am prepared to leave as soon as the leaders of the movement think the critical situation urgently demands our presence...