Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout Japan the Prime Minister's thunderbolt took such potent effect that in several instances angry crowds mobbed Ronoto speakers. None the less impartial observers lent a sympathetic ear to stalwart, forthright Ikuo Oyama, Leader of the Ronoto. He swore that its members are not Communists but the unfortunate victims of a Government scheme to intimidate the Opposition...
...first sacker on the 1928 diamond aggregation; leads the regular players with a mark of 470. This is Prior's first year on the University team. W. W. Lord '28, for two years a mainstay at the bat, trails with 428, while G. E. Donaghy '29, early season leader last year, ranks third, with a figure...
...example, the known history of Washington of a decade past was far less than that of the present day. Biographies containing new facts and exposing new angles have recently been written. The leader once considered the head of an ordered, unified whole has now become the great binding force in an aggregation of thirteen turbulent units. He is no longer the majestic, legendary figure of the old schoolbooks, but a human being with the usual quota of human frailities...
Observers could not remember when Leader Tilson had paid Candidate Hoover such a forthright compliment. They concluded that the Hoover backing was coming to include industrial Connecticut; also that Leader Tilson was not far from midstream in the Vice Presidential undercurrent...
...weak spots in Grant's army of 120,000. Always Lee divined Grant's plans; always Grant's losses were heavier. The quiet man in gray who never touched tobacco, rarely tasted liquor and never used a curse-word, persistently outguessed the smoking, drinking, swearing leader from the North. All the next winter Grant was held to the line where he had vowed to "fight it out if it takes all summer...