Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chronic lawbreaker, not only seeking to be regarded as a good citizen, but actually trying to sit in the judge's seat and sentence the whole law-abiding community to jail. Here is the arsonist, trying his best to start another fire, and demanding the right to lead the fire brigade...
...clumsy, complex chemical," set about breaking it down. After months of night-and-day work they found the essential germ killer in it: sulfanilamide, first of the modern wonder drugs that work directly on the cause of infection. Bovet kept going, synthesized hundreds of related compounds, took the lead in chemotherapy away from Germany in helping to create the succession of sulfa drugs that have saved millions of lives...
...forklift truck nosed up to a clattering Linotype and tweaked it away from under the operator's fingers. Backing out, the tractor trundled the two-ton Linotype to a special elevator hoist that whisked it into a waiting truck on Franklin Street. Twenty minutes later the Linotype, its lead still molten, clattered back into action at the new $20 million Sun-Times building on the north side of the Chicago River, six blocks away...
...first time in 21 years, Ford in 1957 headed the pack with a 45,000-car sales lead over Chevrolet at the eight-month mark. Ford earnings showed it: $229.5 million for 1957's first nine months v. $145.2 million last year. And Ford is determined to do even better...
Earlier, freshman Jed Fitzgerald had thoroughly trounced Yale's heralded Tom Carroll, schoolboy 880 record-holder. He opened up a commanding 100-yard lead midway through the race and coasted to win by the same margin...