Word: spearhead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battles of history, a fight no less monumental than Salamis, or Lepanto, or Trafalgar. Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of victory at Pearl Harbor, had flung a vast armada of 200 ships and 700 planes across the Pacific to Wake Island and to the Aleutians, with the spearhead pointing toward a remote, strategic atoll called Midway (see map). His plan was to seize Midway, "sentry for Hawaii," draw out what was left of the U.S. fleet, and win the war quickly before U.S. industrial might could be brought to bear. "In the last analysis," he argued, "the success...
Quivering Left. Three months ago wispy, white-maned Premier Antonio Segni won parliamentary approval for his plan to put all state-owned corporations under a single "Ministry of State Holdings." The right was worried: in the hands of a zealous left-winger, the new ministry could spearhead an all-out assault on Italian free enterprise...
While a few individuals took the spotlight, team success has depended on many other factors. Solid rebounding and an ability to get shots up from the outside have pushed a tall and aggressive Eliot basketball team into first place. Jim Joslin, John Rockefeller, and Bob Leet spearhead the team's offense...
...amateurs recognized the importance of their find. The spearhead was a partially fluted "Clovis point"-so called because the first such flint specimen was found near Clovis, N. Mex. Clovis points have always been considered older than the fully fluted Folsom points, but no one was sure just how old they are. Commonest guess was 15,000 years. But the discovery of a Clovis point in a campfire hearth containing charcoal made it possible to date the Clovis culture by carbon...
Despite Macmillan's explanations, the Cabinet decision provoked a storm of protest in Parliament. Spearhead of the attack were Tory backbenchers, chief among them Toronto-born Sir Beverley Baxter, a onetime piano salesman who rose to the eminence of editor in chief...