Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intelligence had no warning of the firing of the sputnik. ¶ U.S. policymakers probably have been seriously underestimating Russian scientific capability; in vital sectors of the technology race the U.S. may well have lost its precious lead...
...that the U.S., with an all-out effort, probably could have fired its own satellite by now. (Last week Project Vanguard put its 72-ft. TV2 launching rocket-see cut-through the third in a series of seven tests.) Contrariwise it was true that the U.S. had lost its lead because, in spreading its resources too thin, the nation had skimped too much on military research and development. Russia's victory in the satellite race proved that the U.S. had not tried hard enough...
...wrote the Bishop a letter. "I deeply believe," said the President, "that there is much that Little Rock's ministers, as the spiritual and moral leaders of the community, can do ... I hope that you and the ministers of Little Rock will be able not only to lead all the citizens of the city to disregard the incitements of agitators but will join in support of the law and the preservation of our country...
...almost suicidal in its audacity. Even in trying to answer him, Gomulka's Polityka fell into admission of the threat he poses to the Communist hierarchy: "Kolakowski and the enragés are not able to present any program of a 'moral' policy which would not lead at once to a national catastrophe and to the annihilation of Socialism." Kolakowski's supporters heard that he will be barred immediately from writing for Nowa Kultura, may even face a trial and expulsion from the Communist Party. But whoever moves against Kolakowski and what he represents in Poland...
...romantic love a good many years ago, and it takes much imagination and effort to break out of a mold which has been a success as often as this one. The pattern of musical comedies is nearly always the same. After a fast opening chorus, the romantic male lead meets and wins the romantic female lead, all to the tune of a ballad. Then comes the comic subplot, generally introduced by means of a specialty number. After that, the plot takes over for a while, and by the time the first-act curtain falls, the lovers are parted. The second...