Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...away with Louis-must-go editorials; the Ontario Young Liberals Association breathed fire against "our latter-day leaders." Last week, with the tacit approval of his political intimates, "Uncle Louis" announced that he would step down as Liberal chief, explained: "I no longer have the vigor and energy to lead the party through an election...
Such frank statements, denying any final, unchanging standard of English grammar, horrify many men of letters who maintain that Evans' opinions lead straight to linguistic chaos. Last week Evans' baiters and backers were thumbing through a new, 576-page defense of his pragmatic approach to grammar, called
...bases. More likely it is interested in icecap missile bases, which could be ideal places to station giant rockets in ready-to-go position. Temperature and humidity would be low and constant, deep under the ice, and this is good for delicate mechanism. Under-ice supply routes would lead invisibly in from the coast, and over the base itself would spread a smooth, white plain, showing no faintest sign of human activity...
...contract, longest in the Met's history, will keep Bing in New York (at a "substantially improved" salary) through the spring of 1962, and perhaps 1964. will allow him to lead the Met from its old house into the promised land of Manhattan's huge new Center for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Square. While the Met directors were praising Bing's 1956-57 record (the house sold 94% of capacity all season long), Bing was in Germany, window-shopping for the latest fashions in opera houses. After clambering about the bobsled-shaped boxes of Cologne...
...marble headquarters-in-the-country of the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. Already chosen by the American Institute of Architects as one of the "Ten Buildings in America's Future." it is not only a splendid example of the precisely machined modern elegance in which U.S. architects lead the world, but is likely to become the most honored building of the year...