Word: spearhead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Spurred by the sympathetic response of the new administration, the Harvard College Theatre Committee last winter made the first efforts to crystallize undergraduate opinion into active support. The Committee's planned benefit production of O'Neil's Marco Millions to spearhead a renewed drive this spring shows just how strong this support has grown. Its magnitude is shown by the number and diversity of the many other College groups besides the Dramatic Club that have agreed to help. The play will undoubtedly add to the funds already accumulated, but this is not its most valuable contribution. If it will convince...
Down the Line. The spearhead of next week's invasion will be the lady. Amiable and easygoing, King Paul is as strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) a monarch as any society matron could wish for. Frederika, his 5-ft. 3-in. Queen, whose trim figure and impudent face are topped by an unruly mop of chestnut curls, was once described (to her face) by a U.S. Congressman in his cups as "the cutest little Queenie I ever...
...afraid. West Berlin is still a far-flung outpost, tempest-lashed in a Red sea. Cold war is its way of life and the Iron Curtain its backyard fence, yet in five years as mayor, Reuter refused to accept his city as an island. "Call it a spearhead," he said with a faint grin, and by his courage he made...
Cooney, only a sophomore, shot a 'brilliant four-under par 67, to spearhead the the Crimson's 7-0 win over MIT and Bowdoin on Wednesday, and will play in first position today...
...Rundstedt's command was a main spearhead in the conquests of Poland and France, and formed the stout southern arm of the Nazi thrust into Russia. But when the German attack in Russia slowed down, with winter coming, von Rundstedt counseled not only a halt but retreat. Hitler removed him. In 1942, with the U.S. in the war, Hitler made von Rundstedt Commander in Chief West, to prepare for the eventual Allied invasion of Europe. By 1944, says World War II Historian Chester Wilmot (The Struggle for Europe), von Rundstedt had lost the master's touch...