Word: forefront
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the same narrow mountain pass which Saul and Jonathan had used to fall upon the Philistines centuries earlier. The Bible told just where to find it: "And between the passages . . . there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side . . . the forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash. and the other southward over against Gibeah." A few years ago Israeli Businessman Xiel Federmann began to brood over the account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ("and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke...
Thus, without risking a political bruise or carrying a precinct, Stu Symington moved into the forefront of the Demo cratic Party's field of presidential hopefuls. His timing could hardly have been better; Kefauver and Stevenson were slugging each other into exhaustion, however temporary, and political leaders in both North and South, pending the outcome in California, were quietly looking over dark horses. Said Illinois' National Committeeman Jake Arvey, a steadfast Stevenson man: "All around the country I heard that Symington is the front-runner among the dark horses. Of course Stevenson would have to be stopped first...
...Johnston said that "the eggheads are hard to find among Adlai E. Stevenson's 1956 strategists. The starry-eyed amateuars who carried the ball in 1952 have yielded to a group of political veterans." Late last night Johnston said he meant that these people were not in the forefront...
Professor Arthur Sutherland, who, along with his son, was a pupil of Chafee's, lauds him as "a man who all his life has stood for the free man in the free society. He is in the forefront of the movement for human freedom throughout the world." Zach Chafee intends to remain in this forefront after his retirement. Although he will take more time out to enjoy boating, loud shirts, touring, and his eight grandchildren, Chafee plans to speak out more strongly than ever for the protection of freedom of expression. In retirement, he feels, there will be opportunity...
Since World War II, the very quality the Nazis detested most in Barlach's work -its expression of human striving and religious aspiration-has restored his work to the forefront of German 20th century art. In Germany today his war memorials in Magdeburg, Kiel and Hamburg, torn down by the Nazis, have been restored. Last week Barlach was being honored at Harvard's Busch-Reisinger Museum with his first comprehensive showing in the U.S., a traveling exhibition of 176 of his sculptures, drawings and prints...