Word: spearhead
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...Elis led the Ivies in rushing defense last year and the majority of that stingy unit is back. Captain Carmen Ilacqua and Ardel Mckenna may well be the best linebacker tandem in the league. They'll spearhead a defense that is sure to terrorize offenses around New England...
There is a breathless scene in Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust when the hero is caught in a street riot and is carried every way the mob heaves: "He was the spearhead of a flying wedge when it collided with a mass going in the opposite direction. The impact turned him around. As the two forces ground against each other, he was turned again and again, like a grain between millstones. This didn't stop until he became part of the opposing force...
Catliff has spearhead a dangerous Crimson attack that will face UCLA Sunday in the quarterfinals of the NCAA tourney. He leads the team with 10 goals and five assists for 25 points...
...behalf, defending less the vagaries of his particular case than the issues of religious freedom the trial has raised. And figures as politically diverse as Joseph Lowrey, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Dr. Tim Lahaye, president of the Moral Majority of California, have joined to spearhead a group of ministers who have pledged to spend a week in jail with Reverend Moon. This unusual commitment indicates the depth of their belief that Moon's prosecution was a disguised persecution...
Whether or not such a watchdog group materializes, the mere fact that men once locked up as subversives are meeting and planning again is symbolic of the new mood. Though rebuilding the old Solidarity as a spearhead of resistance is out of the question, its ideals are being put forward by those seeking government reforms. As Walesa said in a speech he prepared for, but did not deliver at, last week's anniversary, "We signed the social agreements believing in the good intentions of the other party. We were painfully disappointed . . . What about union pluralism? What about freedom...