Word: followings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every American use not only his head but also his heart when he tries to decide which course America should follow...
Although enrollment will fall, it is unlikely that Harvard will follow the lead of several colleges which recently announced that they would have to discharge several of their younger faculty...
...needn't give in to Communist China, he said. He urged calling the island a separate unit and putting it under U.N. jurisdiction. The problem, he admitted, was Chiang Kal-Shek. The Chinese on the continent, although fed up with the Red regime, are not willing to follow Chiang...
...Time & Tide: "The British Commonwealth, which stretches into every geographical division of the world and can fire the loyalty of millions of free men of all colors and many races, is a force that can, in alliance with America, face the Russian Leviathan undaunted." Whether it would gladly follow the U.S., if the U.S. took firm and specific action against the Leviathan and the Leviathan's warmaking Chinese offspring, was another question...
...trouble with radar is that it is subject to blind spots. Its waves go out in straight lines, like television waves; they cannot duck down behind buildings, hills or other obstacles, and they cannot follow the curvature of the earth (see diagram). So a radar station works best against high-flying airplanes. It can pick them up as far away as 150 miles, but if attacking bombers fly low, they can keep behind the bulge of the earth and get much closer before they are detected. With mountains or other obstacles to give them shelter, they are even harder...