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Word: leade (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where these arduous efforts will lead Dent is a matter of conjecture. There has been talk of his returning to South Carolina next year to run for Governor or for the Senate later. For now, despite his complaints about the reports of his influence, he seems to be thoroughly enjoying White House life. These days his tone is sophisticated and statesmanlike: "I recognize that this country is bigger than the South and that the President has to have a stance that's national. The thing that would do me the most harm would be if I took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Up at Harry's Place | 7/11/1969 | See Source »

Several hours later, after Penn had beaten MIT to reach the finals, Leander successfully defended that title against Penn. It defended it powerfully, driving to an early lead. It defended it fiercely, repeatedly holding off a Penn cadence that climbed from 35 to 38 to 41 in a brutal effort to make up an alarming deficit. And it defended it convincingly, mercilessly drubbing a Penn freshman boat that outweighed Leander by ten pounds per man, winning by a whopping three lengths over the mile and five-sixteenths course...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Harvard Lights Beaten at Henley | 7/8/1969 | See Source »

Declarer took the club lead in his hand with the ace and proceeded to draw trump in two rounds. He next attacked the diamonds, cashing the ace and the king and ruffing a third in his hand. Declarer then went to the board with a trump trick and led back the last diamond which East covered with the jack. Here declarer made the key play and refused the trick, discarding the club from his hand upon which West discarded a spade...

Author: By Stephen F. Kelley, | Title: Kelley on Bridge | 7/8/1969 | See Source »

...declarer knew that any chance for the contract depended upon East holding the king of spades, and only then, if he did lead back to his partner's signal, which seemed to be the surest chance to defeat the contract...

Author: By Stephen F. Kelley, | Title: Kelley on Bridge | 7/8/1969 | See Source »

...back to the camera; the two are exactly aligned in depth). Thus Ophuls reduces to its most brutal terms the subjection of women to men, a subjection which informs the entire film. The relation of these two independent artists, romantics who know the desperation to which their wills must lead them, is different from any other relation, full of the tension between likes...

Author: By Mike Prokosch, | Title: La Vie Extraordinaire de Lola Montes | 7/8/1969 | See Source »

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