Word: forefront
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...been a great triumph in many regions. From Latin America, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand reports that among the people?but not the officials?Carter is fast becoming as admired as the much venerated John Kennedy. Notes a leading opposition politician in Chile: "The U.S. is now in the forefront of the fight for freedom and has once again assumed moral and spiritual leadership...
Since 1900, women have competed in a basketball championship for Iowa high schools. (The NCAA championship for men did not tip off until 1919.) The Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union runs this tournament and has brought women's basketball to the forefront in Iowa (all but six of the state's 503 high schools sport women's hoop teams...
...Leonard has been at the forefront of the affirmative action struggles since the birth of the civil rights movement. His energies will be sorely missed by black students at Harvard," Anthony R. Chase '77, president of Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association, said yesterday...
...used to have a teacher who loved to tell how he won the Silver Star fighting the Nazis in the Big One. But he was no die-hard old soldier. When people realized that we were killing innocent people in Vietnam, he was there in the forefront with the best of them, his grey hair growing long and a massive peace symbol hanging prominently around his neck...
Lugar is certain to be propelled to the forefront of the thin ranks of young, attractive G.O.P. officeholders with bright futures. In 1973, during his second term as mayor, Lugar hit the Republican fundraising circuit, conceding that he was "sort of running" for his party's 1976 presidential nomination. Before 1980, he may drop the "sort of." PENNSYLVANIA: '57 VARIETIES...