Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colored People, as a corporation, to produce its records of membership and contributions. The 5-2 decision ignored a U.S. Supreme Court finding that protected the N.A.A.C.P. in a similar case in Alabama, and slapped down as unwarranted the N.A.A.C.P.'s contention that public disclosure of records might lead to "harassment, economic reprisals and even bodily harm...
...somber Cabinet meetings last week, De Gaulle and his Cabinet wrestled with these awkward realities. At last, hot on the heels of the London announcement, Antoine Pinay proclaimed France's course. Presumably buoyed up by promises of financial underwriting from West Germany, France followed Britain's lead, made the franc, too, externally convertible. At the same time the De Gaulle government devalued the franc by an unexpected 17.5%, established a new rate of 493.7 to the dollar...
...record hits), he concedes that he himself played spin-the-bottle at 13 and, perhaps too impetuously, eloped at 19. Currently he takes a sternly parental view: "We all know that indiscriminate kissing, dancing in the dark, hanging around in cars, late dates at this early stage can lead to trouble. And that you miss a lot of fun with the nicer play-by-the-rules crowd . . . Kissing is not a game. Believe me ... Kissing for fun is like playing with a beautiful candle in a roomful of dynamite...
...Would you mind reading a script of mine?" The wraith maintained her poise in the face of Noel Coward, managed to say: "I'd like to." A couple of days later, after a ten-minute reading, the cleft-chinned Lorelei of the West Fifties was signed for the lead in Coward's new comedy, Look After Lulu, due to open in late February...
...first-class business and that in a first-class way," serving such blue-chip firms as Du Pont, General Motors, International Harvester, American Telephone & Telegraph and U.S. Steel, many of which it had a hand in building. The bank began by marketing U.S. railroad securities abroad, took the lead in consolidating and merging railroads toward the turn of the century. From 23 Wall Street the elder J. P. Morgan stopped a run on the U.S. Treasury in 1895 by putting up gold for the Treasury, quelled the panic in 1907 by forcing leading bankers to produce enough cash to shore...