Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delusion that more rigid farm controls and larger surpluses to dispose of at the taxpayer's expense can lead to a prosperous farm economy...
...education professor and five-term Congressman with one of the most liberal voting records in the House; Red Wing's Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, 49, Harry Truman's Ambassador to Denmark, who had campaigned hard through the state by 1953 Oldsmobile to overtake Gene McCarthy's early lead...
...upturn, the D.F.L. was heartened by an increase in National Farmers Union membership since 1956 from 35,000 to 41,000 families. Beyond that, the D.F.L. Senate ticket would be helped mightily by the fact that popular Governor Orville Freeman, running for his third term, is considered such a lead-pipe cinch that the leadership-starved Minnesota Republicans have yet to find a man who will launch a campaign against...
...engage another of the panelists in controversy, and there is Mr. Smith, quick on the switch, shunting the discussion into more neutral territory. The result of Mr. Smith's tactful control of the situation is that no one on his program ever manages to say anything that will lead either his colleagues or the audience to considerations other than those already established in our enlightened culture...
...Holup of favored Villanova, considered Landau's chief competition in the high hurdles, ran a sterling 14.6 qualifying heat to lead the qualifiers...