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Word: spearhead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quickest and one of the heaviest (239 Ibs. per man) offensive lines in pro football. To do his tackling, he has a sturdy, stingy defensive team that has permitted its opponents an average of only 102 yds. rushing. 127 yds. passing and 10 points a game. To spearhead the awesome (30 points per game) Packer attack. Lombardi boasts the league's most accurate passer. Quarterback Starr, who has completed 64f'f of his passes this season. He has the N.F.L.'s top ground gainer (1.318 yds.) in Jim Taylor, an oak-ribbed fullback who never runs around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vinnie, Vidi, Vici | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...able to rebuild Algeria's shattered economy or redistribute its land fast enough to please his impatient chief of staff. In that case, the next time Boumedienne marches, it will probably be to rivet army rule on Algeria. Boumedienne has often remarked that "the army is the spearhead of the revolution"-and he alone wields the spear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SOLDIER IN WAITING | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...Nation's Spearhead. The philosophy behind the S.A.O. is a muddle of authoritarian, imperialist and populist ideas. S.A.O. propaganda is the sort often found in flights from reality?orotund, florid, declamatory, and so ecstatic as to approach hysteria. Communists delight in identifying themselves historically with Spartacus and his slave revolt; the S.A.O. officers see themselves as Roman legionnaires holding off the Red barbarians on the marches of empire and sending back semaphore messages warning Rome?or rather, Paris?to "beware of the anger of the Legions!" A typical S.A.O. manifesto recalls French soldiers fallen in colonial wars: "Our dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: The Not So Secret Army | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...states is unthinkable; 2) the Moslem population will get equal status?some time in the future; 3) in the new France, the S.A.O. will rip out the "Communist and Christian-Progressivist cancer that has undermined the state"; 4) the S.A.O. will eagerly join the French army as the "antiCommunist spearhead of the nation"; 5) having won France, the S.A.O. will then defend Western civilization through nationalism, which is "France's permanent vocation?the only means of fighting Communist expansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: The Not So Secret Army | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...killing schedule. Much of his decision making is done on airplane flights, during which officials of one Deutsche Bank branch after another accompany him in relays like Pony Express riders, a new team coming aboard with its problems at each stop. But Abs has also found time to spearhead an increasingly potent campaign for an international "Magna Carta" that would discourage governments from arbitrarily expropriating or discriminating against foreign capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Abroad: A Man of Marks | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

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