Word: spearheaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spearhead & Rib. Postmaster Oscar Shay, an enthusiastic amateur of Portales, N. Mex., recently found what is probably the first authentic bone of Folsom Man, a mysterious race of hunters who lived 10,000 years ago. Shay went bone-hunting with Jerry Ainsworth, a student at Eastern New Mexico College. Near a small stream called Blackwater Draw, they found the skeleton of a "dire wolf," a husky, toothy, carnivorous beast that died out toward the end of the glacial period...
Dire wolves are respectable finds for any amateur digger, but among the bones of this one was something even choicer: a stone spearhead with oddly fluted sides. It proved that the dire wolf had been speared and possibly killed by a Folsom hunter. It also hinted that other Folsom remains might be found near by. In Pleistocene times Blackwater Draw must have been a sizable river, just the place for ancient hunters to use as a camp site...
...picture's central character is the Army Air Force's Colonel Paul W. Tibbets Jr. (Robert Taylor), who was assigned to spearhead the historic Operation Silverplate. The film shows Colonel Tibbets testing and perfecting the new 6-29 long-range bomber in 1943, assembling and training a group of Air Force experts at Wendover Field in the Utah desert during 1944, piloting the Enola Gay (named after his mother), which dropped the first atom bomb on Japan in August...
Although the club has a staff director, Rev. Lawrence A. Nyberg, the Debaters, handle most of the responsibilities them- selves. As Rev. Nyberg himself said, "I'm director in names only; Bill is the real leader of the group." As president of the group Bill is its real spearhead. Besides presiding at the debates, be handles almost all the relations with the university opposition, arranging and scheduling debates, and picking topics...
...luck of war: they had made a lightning strike into the heart of enemy country, but just as they had been about to descend on the Communist stronghold of Yenbay, the whole operation had been called off. Operation Lorraine it had been named-parachute troops leapfrogging an armored spearhead of 15,000 infantrymen, as pretty a piece of planning as you would find in the book. What had happened...