Word: spearhead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spearhead & the Stave. Against this thesis of an officers' conspiracy, pale, intense Gaullist Minister André Malraux pitted an eloquence doomed to be soon silenced. (At week's end, Malraux, although retained in the Cabinet, was relieved of his post as spokesman for the De Gaulle government.) Malraux is the author of some of the most influential French novels of this century (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), an erudite art historian (The Voices of Silence, The Metamorphosis of the Gods), and an old revolutionist who served in the Chinese Civil...
Government troops at dawn scrambled from transports into lifeboats and landing craft, surged onto the beaches north of Padang, the rebel nerve center. A spearhead of Indonesian marines had already pushed inland against light resistance. At the Padang airfield, eight miles north of town, government planes strafed gun positions while 200 paratroopers drifted down at the field's edge. Within twelve hours, the rebel defenders were in flight along the road to Bukittinggi, 58 miles away, and Padang was firmly in the control of Djakarta's Colonel Achmad Jani, who had learned his lessons well...
...Made himself the spearhead of a congressional committee that has ordered the rebuilding of the east front of the Capitol despite protests of architects, historians and antiquarians (TIME, March...
Khrushchev's line, backed by the U.S.S.R.'s scientific triumph with Sputniks I and II, is a bold and daring line indeed, and the spearhead of what may well be modern diplomacy's most brazen propaganda gambit. For if the Communists, whose missilery is a threat of the near future, should succeed by big talk in persuading U.S. allies, and the U.S. itself, that the day of the bomber is over, they could win for Communism a cold-war victory over the most powerful armed force ever assembled-an armed force that in the here...
...year refrigeration-equipment tester, moved into his pastel-pink, three-bedroom, $12,150 ranch house in August because his family had outgrown a two-bedroom cottage in a predominantly Negro community a mile away. But his coming to Levittown flowered fears, jeers and widespread rumors that he was the spearhead of a Negro invasion. For days surly crowds grumbled outside his house, finally threw stones through its picture window. Bristol Township police were reinforced by tough state troopers at the direction of Pennsylvania's Democratic Governor George M. Leader ("I am ashamed," said Leader, "that this occurred in Pennsylvania...