Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freedom of lands "where once Western wild beasts roamed." Getting down to the real business of the meeting, an Indian delegate attacked the NATO summit meeting as "a clear indication of the design of the imperialist powers to interfere in Afro-Asian affairs." Briskly following up that lead, Japan's Professor Kaoru Yasui warned that the aim of Britain and the U.S. was "to explode atom and hydrogen bombs over the heads of the colored race...
...Queen went on: "We need the kind of courage that can withstand the subtle corruption of the cynics so that we can show the world that we're not afraid of the future. . . In the old days the monarch led his soldiers onto the battle field. . . I cannot lead you into battle, I do not give you laws or administer justice, but I can do something else - I can give you my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of-nations." She spoke for seven minutes, and her appearance...
...Fearful that the U.S. missile-satellite effort may cause other sciences to be neglected, Du Pont President Crawford H. Greenewalt warned that "hasty expedients may, while promising immediate advantage, weaken rather than advance our long-range scientific endeavor." Said he: "I sincerely hope that no scientific chauvinism will lead us down ill-considered pathways toward goals which may be more glitter than gold...
Besides the fascination of these athletic feats, the grasshopper gives the zoologist other good reasons for study. Plagues of locusts (shorthorn grasshoppers) can still endanger the food supply of millions. Knowledge of the nervous system that fires the grasshopper's jumping muscles may lead to an effective insecticide...
...notable example is steel, which is learning to operate like a short-order restaurant. Not since 1942 have users ordered steel on such short lead times: six weeks for heavy construction beams, two weeks for sheet metal for automobiles. In turn, steelmen were producing just enough to meet delivery schedules. They were well aware that any sudden economic upturn would not catch them without production capacity. But it could catch customers short on steel. As long as customers continue to buy only for immediate needs, steel may not rise above 75% of rated capacity before June, but the industry expects...