Word: spearhead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indian jet fighters streaked from the sky to smash the armored spearhead. Fearful of losing the strategic city of Jammu, the Indian high command ordered the drive on Lahore, removing the battle from Kashmir to Pakistan proper, and changing a brush-fire war into a full-scale challenge. The escalation had increased, and the suspense was over. Whatever else Ayub Khan and Shastri accomplished last week, they had noisily reopened the question of Kashmir...
...Bradford, Bruce Corbridge, and Dick Perching spearhead the Bulldogs' attack, splitting the scoring chores pretty evenly between them. The Yale offense has averaged about nine goals per game against League opponents...
...Bogota, the urbane and rainy capital of Colombia, 300 Latin American revolutionaries are meeting to plan an overthrow. Their target is not a paunchy dictator but a better-entrenched foe: the tariffs and trade barriers that divide Latin America. Their spearhead is the ambitious, nine-nation Latin American Free Trade Association, which so far in its four-year history has talked tall but acted small. As its two-month-long annual meeting began last week, the delegates muttered about "stagnation" and "frustration," agreed that LAFTA* has reached a decisive point at which it must either get bolder or give...
Died. Charles Douglas ("C.D.") Jack son, 62, publisher and public servant, senior vice president of Time Inc., managing director of TIME-LIFE International (1945-49), publisher of FORTUNE (1949-53) and LIFE (1960 to last March), spearhead of Radio Free Europe and Project HOPE, Eisenhower speechwriter and special assistant (he helped draft the Atoms for Peace proposal), U.S. delegate to the U.N. (1954) and, most recently, founder of the International Executive Service Committee, which he envisioned as a Peace Corps of businessmen; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Limited as these pass agreements are, no one knows better than Khrushchev that freedoms have a way of developing a momentum of their own. There is a distinctly European and growing body of opinion, typified by Jean Monnet, spearhead of the Continent's postwar unity drive, that the solution to Europe's largest problem-the burning question of Germany's division-lies in the melding of all the nations of Europe...