Word: forefront
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were in the middle of the principal movements of the decade. His proposal to unite Protestants into a big new church had attracted ten denominations with 25 million members, his prospering Presbyterians had just fashioned an up-to-date creed, and their ample, well-financed bureaucracy was in the forefront of the social crusades...
...attention as any show of the past year. Much of the publicity seems to have been the product of surprise: few in this country had ever heard of Hodler, much less assigned him the same prominence in which he is held by European critics, who see him at the forefront of early modernism...
...Peter R. Breggin, a staff member of the Washington School of Psychiatry, stood in the forefront of this effort. Breggin even placed his objections to the technique on public record in the Congressional Record...
...lifetime as Pablo Picasso. Titian lived to be 99, but only an artist of such diverse styles, such daring experimentation, such natural feeling for his media as Picasso could show such rich variety and consistent excellence in an oeuvre spanning almost 80 years. Always, this production was at the forefront of art in the twentieth century. Picasso was the last, and possibly the greatest of the modernist giants...
Every few days, Marshall saw to it that F.D.R. got a casualty chart with the figures marked in color. Otherwise, the Chief of Staff explained, "you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them in the forefront of your mind." bed of "Making roses," war in a Marshall once democracy is noted. It no is tempting, reading Pogue's rich book, to speculate on how Marshall would have survived the democratic strains of another era - especially the bitter national divisions of the recent past. If he would not let one American...