Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the U.S., caught between necessities of defense and heavy pressure to placate "world opinion," intended to strike a balance of 1) pressing home this year's Eniwetok nuclear-weapons tests come clamor, come what may; but 2) considering, after Eniwetok, whether to follow Khrushchev's lead by declaring future U.S. nuclear tests suspended. Said the President at his news conference: "I would certainly consider it very seriously at that point...
...reported that rarely in medical annals has the poignant phenomenon of false pregnancy-pseudocyesis-survived such odds of matter over mind. Pseudocyesis is older than Hippocrates, has affected subjects from seven to 79. Modern medicine knows it as a mental condition, arising from emotional needs so intense that they lead to suppression of menstruation, distention of the abdomen, enlargement of the breasts, and morning nausea. Most cases involve psychotic women with a feeble grasp of reality. But this patient was not psychotic. Her perceptions were normal; she knew all along that the operation had barred her from reproduction...
...stay put in the towns where they are first taught, make another assumption much favored by the educationists-that "learning for learning's sake" is of scant value, and that only "life purposes," i.e., "needs of hunger, physical comfort, the desire for expression and social integration," can properly lead a child to learn. Is the purpose of study to beguile children or to educate future adults? "Why dramatize 'The Three Bears' in Spanish or French? ... In general, such language learning has little immediate social value. Children would derive similar enjoyment and have experience in creative self-expression...
...minutes later, however, Cornell retaliated, as an attackman found the upper right corner of the cage from 20 feet out on the right side. The Red held its lead until halftime, as the Crimson got off very few shots at the goal...
...varsity's three and one-half length triumph over the Tech boat. Rowing at 31 strokes a minute into a slight headwind the Crimson steadily picked up its lead over the M.I.T. shell rowing at 34 1/2. Closing with a sprint at 38, the varsity's time for the mile and five-sixteenths course...