Word: leading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midnight passed and the countdown approached zero, tension increased inside the lead-enclosed control room three miles from Ground Zero, and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA), where project scientists put aside their munchies and listened intently--by an audio hook...
...laws to conform with the court's guidelines. State courts have imposed death sentences on about 500 people, nearly half of them black men and all but one of them convicted of murder. Opponents of capital punishment fear that Spenkelink's death, ending an unofficial moratorium, may lead to a wave of executions. Most of them will be in the Deep South, which has traditionally led the nation in imposing that penalty...
Some Patriotic Front leaders profess to be concerned that Western recognition of the Muzorewa regime could lead to a sharp increase in the fighting, with South African troops coming to the aid of the security forces and the guerrillas calling for increased Eastern bloc support. There are reports in Mozambique that ZANU has privately assured its backers among the so-called frontline African states that if the lifting of sanctions against Rhodesia can be avoided, ZANU will then be prepared to take part in internationally supervised elections and abide by the results, even if Bishop Muzorewa wins again...
...sanctity of human life. And the court must once again address the prickly question, who should pull the plug? Should the court provide doctors a guideline for dealing with patients who refuse treatment, or should it require adjudication of all right-to-die cases? The court's answer could lead to another stormy chapter in the effort to resolve the dilemma that Karen Ann Quinlan first triggered...
Suspicions of anything big lead to a lot of lip shooting...