Word: foremost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scanning the future, the President saw challenges. Foremost will be "the Communist threat." Warned Ike: we must meet it "in every conceivable way it can appear." Another challenge was complacency: "It has no place in my vocabulary." To a partisan audience he made a practical appeal for help in getting a Republican Congress elected: "I think it is only logical that the people you give to me as my closest associates ... be bound to me by terms of party loyalty as well as official and personal loyalty...
...learned last night that d'Entreves, one of the foremost political historians in the world, would assume teaching duties in the course which now uses one of his books, Natural Law, An Introduction to Legal Philosophy, as one of its principal texts...
...Roman Catholics "need not be afraid" of the Dead Sea Scrolls, said the Rev. Ernest Vogt, the Vatican's foremost expert on scripture studies. In Osservatore Romano Jesuit Vogt said that the manuscripts discovered so far give proof of "the substantial faithfulness of the sacred texts transmitted...
This re-orientation has, of course, brought problems with it, Foremost among these is the type of play which the Festival should produce. How far should the group--or how far will it have to--please popular taste? In other words, will the admirable intent of the Festival be undermined by its sudden new desire for a permanent, sound financial basis? Another closely connected problem concerns casting. Should the Festival seek big-name stars, regardless of their classical acting ability, or should it seek to form a permanent repertory group, which might not have as much popular appeal, albeit considerably...
...Luneville to Besançon"-and this, to Victor, was topographical confirmation of his title to eminence in life. His very name was a triumphant blend of conquest and personal identity, and his war cry was Ego Hugo! "If I had any doubt of my ability to take the foremost place, and to rank above all my rivals," he said, "I would give up writing and become a lawyer tomorrow...