Word: lead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heartbreaking thing about Virginia is that, as the South's leader, it has chosen to lead the way backward into a dark yesterday. Its acts to date have been carefully legalistic (with such grim exceptions as Mrs. Roger Boyle's charred cross). But its less sophisticated sister states, following the bare pattern of their leader, have distorted Virginia's program into outright defiance of the Supreme Court. At his homeland's present crossroads, Harry Byrd is waving the South in a wrong direction that will be remembered long after he has departed...
Djilas had also written: "The experience of Yugoslavia appears to testify that national Communism is incapable of [instituting] the kind of reforms that would gradually transform and lead Communism to freedom...
...colleagues in the Tory Party under its present leaders." Bluntly, he warned Butler against abandoning "our bargaining strength in return for American oil and dollars," adding that Butler "knows very well that no man who had steered this country into so abject a surrender could ever hope to lead the Tory Party...
...track and field, the hard core of any Olympics, the U.S. got off to an auspicious lead. High Jumper Charlie Dumas (rhymes with humus), a lanky young (19) Los Angeles Negro, slithered over the bar in a diving roll that seemed to repeal the law of gravity, set a new mark of 6 ft. 11% in. to win. He did not have to try to better his own world record...
Before President Pusey asked White to lead Harvard's campaign for new capital, the small-eyed, pipe-smoking Long Island broker had not been really active in College affairs. He had never been an Overseer, although he did serve on visiting committees. From his temporary office in Massachusetts Hall, however, he will be able to call on an impressive list of prominent alumni, including vice chairman Devereux C. Josephs '15, Thomas S. Lamont '21, John L. Loeb '24, Ralph Lowell '12, and David Rockefeller '36. "Somewhat reluctantly," White says, he will have to make a large number of speeches during...