Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles was quoted as saying there were no commitments beyond the expression of "hopes and expectations" that Israel's withdrawal of military forces from the Gaza Strip would lead to that county's having free passage through the Gulf of Aqaba...
...separatist revolts in East Indonesia and Sumatra (TIME. Dec. 31), Army Chief of Staff General Abdul Haris Nasution has been unswervingly loyal to Sukarno. Last week, in a blunt, private session with the President. Good Soldier Nasution told Sukarno flatly that taking Communists into the government could well lead to all-out civil war. A high-ranking Moslem politician was still more forthright. "If the Communists come in," he said, "we will take to the hills...
...buildings, most built around the turn of the century, ceilings are falling, stairways have started to pull away from the walls. Window casements are rotting, beams sagging. In the Broadway school, the Harvardmen noted that "classroom floors vibrate when walked upon." Some of the windows that lead to the fire escapes in the Prospect school are either screened or nailed shut; Middle Street and Pidge schools have no fire escapes at all. Six schools have no sprinkler system. Of the Cottage school the Harvardmen warned: "Any internal fire that would cause the collapse of the wooden staircases could trap children...
Died. William Johnson, 41, tall, bearded baritone who starred in the Broadway musical Pipe Dream (opposite Helen Traubel), replaced Alfred Drake in Kismet (1954), sang the male lead in the London productions of Annie Get Your Gun and Kiss Me, Kate; of a heart attack; in Flemington...
...relay, the Harvard team of Bill Murray, Sigo Falk, Hammond, and Dick Seaton (3:59.3) finished second to Yale (3:58.3) after a see-saw struggle Murray and Falk lost about a length of open water to the Elis, but Hammond churned this into a six yard lead. It was not enough, however, for the fast-closing Aubrey caught Seaton after 60 yards and led him home by half a length...