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Word: lead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE COLD WAR & THE SMALL WAR A New Study of U.S. Doctrine | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That Gibson Girl | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Aug. 26, 1957 | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Night School | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Jet Jitney | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

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