Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Limited war, Kissinger maintains, need not lead either to all-out H-bomb war or to stalemate; linked with diplomacy, it strives for specific political gains. For every new Communist aggression, it promises a punishing limited setback, a setback that the enemy will reluctantly accept because the loss is not worth the risk of starting the all-out war. Thus the strategy of ambiguity and the burden of decision for risking total war are turned on the enemy; either he must settle for setback or risk the certain destruction that would come with all-out war. Thus the small inroads...
...graduating class. Four or five times a week, Dr. Eaton practiced tennis with her. "I tried to show Althea how to be a lady on the court," he says, "but she was still unable to accept defeat with grace. If I ran up a 4-1 lead, she'd just quit. Anyone who could get' a lead on her could beat...
...Wheeling his British-built Vanwall into the lead on the second lap of the triangular course at Pescara, Italy, Britain's Stirling Moss was never headed as he set a record for the Grand Prix of Pescara (2 hrs. 59 min. 22.7 sec.) and moved into second place in the race for the world championship. Second at Pescara: Juan Fangio, who already has won enough Grand Prix races for the championship...
Conerly's pinpoint passing and Agajanian's accurate kicking pushed the Giants into a steadily widening lead. Final score: 22-12. For the Giants, it was just as well. They had to win. Not since 1938 had a Giant team won the pro championship, been privileged to play against the college boys...
...race to build the world's smallest helicopter, the lead was claimed last week by Aeronautical Engineer Eugene Gluhareff, who put on display in Manhattan Beach, Calif, a jet-powered air jitney that straps on the back of the pilot like a parachute. Weight of the contraption: 68 lbs., and Gluhareff thinks he can eventually lower...