Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whom all were looking to meet and match the Sputnik challenge, had been struck down. In Paris the NATO Council, acting on premature reports that there was no possibility of Ike's attendance at the Prime Ministers' meeting expressed'"satisfaction" that "Vice President Nixon would lead the U.S. delegation," and voted to go ahead with the conference as planned. But privately, European members of the Council admitted that they had done so partly to give the lie to Soviet propaganda that the NATO allies are nothing but U.S. satellites. "If Premier Menderes of Turkey were taken...
...complex processes that result in speech. Like most of the brain lying near the surface, Broca's area gets its blood supply from one of the countless branches of the middle cerebral artery. The particular branch supplying Broca's area is not much thicker than the lead in a pencil, and if in Ike's case this was already narrowed by arteriosclerosis, a tiny clot would be enough to shut down the flow. That a bigger artery branch was not involved was shown by Ike's keeping full command of functions controlled by adjacent brain areas...
...hours after doctors diagnosed the President's illness, the United Press and International News Service simultaneously (at 3:08 p.m.) flashed the first wire-service bulletins. Said the U.P.: "Ike has heart attack." Said the I.N.S. brain-twister: "Ike has a mild cerebral heart attack." The Associated Press lead, two minutes later, restrainedly quoted.the less dramatic verdict of a cerebral occlusion, but kept its weather eye on the headlines by explaining that "the White House called it 'a form of heart attack.' " Half an hour later, when all three wire services backed away from the heart-attack...
...Miss Julie" will be presented again tomorrow and Monday, and for tonight's performance, the LHDS will present Shaw's "The Man of Destiny," with Edward McKirdy, lead in "The Questioning of Nick," in the title role. The Shaw play was presented at Leverett last year, and three actors from that production will appear tonight...
...Bowdoin coach, Bob Donham, and a vociferous crowd which nearly filled Sargent Gymnasium, looked on in dismay as the Crimson jumped to its early lead. Through the remainder of the half, the varsity added only two points to its margin, to lead, 31 to 18, at half-time. By the middle of the second half, deadly shooting had brought Bowdoin within three points of the Crimson, but the varsity smoothly pulled ahead to overcome the Bears...