Word: leade
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suit, remember which one is Evans and which one is Novak, explain why we tolerate William Loeb's tarnal foolishness in the Manchester Union Leader, and then put on DeKalb Seed Corn caps and decide which of a dozen self-swollen hot-air balloons is least likely to lead the nation to shame and ruin...
Jones does not win every argument, of course. Indeed, he still bears the scars of the fight over the B-l supersonic bomber. Carter canceled that project in June 1977, when ex-Bomber Pilot Jones was Air Force Chief of Staff and the plane's leading advocate. Carter's surprise decision shook the Air Force. Its generals immediately began talking of mounting a campaign in Congress to save the bomber and they looked to Jones to lead the attack. Jones concluded instead that such a campaign would have almost no chance of succeeding. "That was an agonizing decision...
...trip, look at the way I'm smiling in the photographs. That was the smile of a condemned man. I felt Like a dead man. I answered all the idiotic questions in a daze, and thought, When I get back it's over for me. Stalin liked leading Americans by the nose that way. Well, why say lead by the nose? That's too strong¬ ly put. He only fooled those who wanted to be fooled. The Americans don't give a damn about us, and in order to live and sleep soundly, they...
Princeton took an early lead after two lackluster possessions by the Crimson. On the opening series, quarterback Burke St. John was sacked twice for a combined loss of nine yards...
...pressured the Harvard backs for much of the remainder of the half. Only in the second 45 minutes, after Michael Smith moved back to center half from the right side to replace Frank RiCapito, did the Crimson gain control of midfield and look likely to preserve or increase its lead...