Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry Byroade, who understood and liked Nasser as a fellow soldier. "Egypt stands today in every respect with the West," said Nasser, and Byroade sent back to Washington sympathetic and admiring reports. Even the Israelis considered Nasser the most progressive of Arab leaders, nursed a hope that he might lead the way to Arab-Israeli peace...
...only did Pibul lead all other candidates in Bangkok, but the sole woman candidate elected turned out to be his wife, Lady Laiad. True enough, two of Pibul's ministers were defeated and at least 26 seats had fallen to Nai Khuang and his Democrats, but at week's end, with 135 seats accounted for, Pibul's men had won 77-more than enough to assure the Premier control of even the free half of Parliament...
...world is about to watch a strange and exciting show: U.S. industry, led by scientists and engineers and backed by the U.S. Government, is headed for outer space. The cost of the campaign will be as astronomical as its objective, but the men who lead it consider its success a national necessity. They point out that the earth's atmosphere is an insignificant film, thinner in proportion than the skin of an apple, and that military technology is about to outgrow it, as it outgrew the earth's surface two world wars ago. Navigation of the air-film...
...Tribune, which promptly posted bond for Bulloch, told readers in a lead editorial that it had independently investigated the reporter's affairs and remains "confident of his integrity." Pointing out that Bulloch has "earned the undying enmity of scores'' of wrongdoers, the Tribune said: "The indictment seems to have been based on the statements of admitted law violators." Among the charges that Bulloch will face is the claim that he had been voted a 10% cut of their profits at a bootleggers' meeting which Bulloch did not attend...
...technical thrashing and rehashing that bedevil Manhattan painters. His subjects range from such imaginary portraits as King Gustave of Sweden Tatting to East Riding of Yorkshire Yeomanry Disembarking from H.M.S. Cressy , the fourth in a series of watercolors which sprang from the war games that Parker, a lead-soldier enthusiast, played until recently on the mudflat at suburban Mamaroneck, N.Y. Parker's drenched watercolors. done on rolls of plain shelf paper, now appear in the collections of both the Whitney and the Museum of Modern...