Word: forefront
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wore his heart on his sleeve. He breezed lightly over California's Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown ("a man to be reckoned with''), New Jersey's Governor Bob Meyner ("in the spotlight of public interest"), and Michigan's Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams ("in the forefront of enlightened social legislation"). Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey was "one of the forward-looking thinkers in our ranks"; Adlai Stevenson, chairman of the evening, was "an important and gifted voice in the affairs of the party and the nation"; Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy was "a liberal...
Soon even some of the biggest wheels in Detroit began to doubt that U.S. consumers wanted their cars so big and bright. In the forefront of public doubters was American Motors' President George Romney (TIME, April 6, 1959). Privately, there was also Ed Cole, who had been working on a compact car for years...
Well in the forefront of Macmillan's mind, however, were the domestic political advantages of a mission to Moscow. Recent polls show his Tory Party trailing Labor in popularity for the first time in eight months; unemployment, which stands at 531,000, has hurt the Conservatives. Any kind of a diplomatic success would give him a talking point should he decide to call a general election before the end of the year. In the House of Commons the universal good-natured reaction to news of Macmillan's Moscow trip was expressed by Labor M.P. Jean Mann. Said...
...people, and the shadow he casts over Africa stretches far beyond the borders of his Oregon-sized country. As the head of the only French territory to vote against De Gaulle's constitution and thus to choose complete independence, he has been suddenly catapulted into the forefront of the African scene. Last week somnolent, picturesque Conakry was getting to know how it feels to be the capital of an independent nation. France, Britain and the U.S. were busy setting up embassies; there had been trade missions from East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia; and last week the first ambassador arrived...
...gradually she comes to see that the partisans have as much of a claim to her ability to prevent suffering as her countrymen have. She is traitorously happy with the roving bands of peasant soldiers until one day a German prisoner is captured who shames her patriotism to the forefront of her thoughts. She manages for him to escape, though refusing to go herself...