Word: spearhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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News was bad for Italy in the North, but there again no stigma was attached to regular army troops. Insistently from Addis Ababa went out a report that in a nine-day battle northwest of Makale, spearhead of Italy's northern advance, Ethiopian warriors had captured three mud villages, 18 tanks, 33 field guns, 175 machine guns, 2.605 rifles, had wiped out an entire brigade of the Fascist Oct. 28 Division, a loss of at least...
...stiff-fezzed Askaris and undrilled Danakil tribesmen, backed by a battery of moun- tain artillery mounted on camels-had made the most spectacular forced march of the entire Ethiopian campaign. To protect the flank of Italy's main army of the north with its spearhead at Makale, they had gone where no white men had ever gone before, skirting the blazing Danakil Desert, then up over the bitter cold highlands facing the Derdega Mountains. One thing General Mariotti knew: Degiac Kassa Sebat was ahead of him with an indefinite number of well-armed Ethiopians and he would attack...
...There is no chance of my changing my mind." "It can't be so!" cried Ontario's Welfare Minister David Croll* and sprinted for the Premier's office. "I could write columns on the dismay and regret I feel!" gasped Ontario Attorney General Arthur Roebuck, the spearhead of Mitch's onslaughts upon "the power barons" and "the interests." "If there were only himself to consider," snorted Ontario's Health Minister James Faulkner, M. D., "I wouldn't blame Mitch for quitting!" After much pecking, Ontario newshawks convinced themselves last week that Mitchell Hepburn...
Fanchon & Marco thereupon complained to the Department of Justice that, by withholding their films, Warner, Paramount and RKO were violating the Sherman Law. A Federal Grand Jury indicted the three companies. To cinemanufacturers, the St. Louis case last week looked like the spearhead of a Government attack on their film-selling system...
Today every Russian considers that Germany is the spearhead of such anti-Communist world forces as exist. Though Comrade Dimitroff has had no experience in directing a revolution, he has fearlessly fought Nazis and he does have spunk. This last week caused some Moscow wiseacres to guess that Dictator Stalin, famed for weeding out spunky subordinates, might intervene to prevent Dimitroff's election...