Word: spearhead
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...lead the charge still struck me as implying that only a Magic Negro could be expected to wave his putter like a magic wand and singlehandedly settle the bitter quarrel between two entrenched camps. The people drafting Woods seem to feel that he has a special obligation to spearhead the assault on discrimination at Augusta simply because his multiracial background supposedly makes him especially sensitive to all forms of oppression. That's where the Magic Negro angle comes in: Woods is being asked to solve a problem that most blacks don't give a hoot about just because some powerful...
...Plate final, Storch overcame Rob Endelman—an opponent so intense he twice sprawled across the court, bloodying his hands—to win 3-1 and spearhead the Crimson’s victory...
Even with so many players returning, Harvard will turn to freshman Will Broadbent to spearhead its attempt to return to the pinnacle of collegiate squash. Coach Satinder Bajwa plans to subject Broadbent to a trial by fire of sorts, installing the rookie immediately in the No. 1 slot for the Crimson’s season opener against Brown tomorrow evening...
...really see nuclear policy as a spearhead issue for challenging the entire approach to foreign affairs, which are imperialist, militarized and elitist,” she said...
After submitting an “ambitious” proposal aiming to bring Harvard to the forefront of major research on Latino studies last April, a leading Latino studies professor has received $75,000 from University Provost Steven E. Hyman to spearhead an interfaculty initiative on “Immigration and Well-being...