Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laws on the grounds that federal legislation had pre-empted the field. Under the House measure, a federal law would not supersede a state law in the same area unless 1) Congress so specified, or 2) there was a "direct and specific conflict." Opponents warned that the bill would lead to endless jurisdictional tangles between federal and state laws in such fields as interstate commerce regulation, even civil rights. Senate prospects: very...
Please, let's not hear so much hereafter about America's high mission to lead the world...
Turning Point. Men and nations launched moves without any knowledge of where the moves would lead-action led to reaction, threat to counterthreat. The U.S. moved marines into Lebanon with no certainty that the marines could halt in Lebanon without being drawn into shooting, or whether it might be preferable to the Western world to buttress a counterattack on Iraq. At that moment the answer to a single key question was still hidden behind Iraq's censorship and sealed borders. Was there anything to save in Iraq? At midweek came the answer: no. That was the turning point...
...Syrian agents instigated and took a prominent lead in the May 8 Tripoli riots that kicked off the civil...
...revolt burst on Iraq at 5 o'clock Monday morning. Major General Abdul Kareem el-Kassim, 42, who had been ordered to lead his men into Jordan to bolster King Hussein against a coup, led them instead into sleeping Baghdad. Silently, and without firing a shot, his soldiers took over the key points of the city. One by one the railroad station, the main intersections, the post and telegraph offices and the radio station were surrounded. By the time the troops began heading for the palace of 23-year-old King Feisal, an excited mob was at their heels...