Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unification of the armed forces under a strong Department of Defense, and 2) the Air Force's strategic-bombing concept, symbolized by the intercontinental B-36, which Radford unhappily termed "a billion-dollar blunder." Such was Radford's quiet but sharp-toothed tenacity as he helped lead the famous "Revolt of the Admirals" (1948-49) that the Army's General Omar Bradley, then chairman of the J.C.S., got away with calling him one of the Navy's "fancy Dans who won't hit the line with all they have on every play unless they...
...Conservatives have a right to three more years in office and a comfortable lead of about 60 in the House of Commons. They have no intention of subjecting themselves to a general election any sooner than they have...
Batista is well aware that the pint-sized revolt is hurting Cuba's two major crops: sugar and tourists. And if it keeps up long enough, the unrest might lead other 'army officers to ominous speculation about just who is the best man to lead the country...
...ahead of Van Doren as a money winner by adding the jackpot of The $64,000 Challenge to his take of $100,000 from The Big Surprise. And CBS's I Love Lucy, which NBC hopes to jar out of its five-year supremacy, still kept a narrow lead of five Trendex rating points over Twenty One. But as Van Doren turned down movie offers and sweated out his weekly decision whether to keep putting his money on the line, NBC still felt hopeful in putting its money...
...reactor is housed in a dome-roofed steel building whose purpose is to keep radioactive matter from escaping into the air in the unlikely event of an explosion. Its nuclear core, enclosed in a thick lead and concrete shield, contains fuel elements whose active material is natural uranium and uranium slightly enriched with fissionable U-235. Among the fuel elements circulates ordinary water, which acts both as moderator (to slow neutrons down) and as a heat-absorbing agent...