Word: spearheaded
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...started from the four cardinal points, which are Picasso, Matisse, Braque and Bonnard. They were the armored spearhead that broke through the enemy defenses. We have been the fighting infantry which poured through the gap they opened; we widened the breach and eventually we will rout the enemy. We may not be the creators they were-time alone will decide that. But we did achieve one thing: we have changed . . . that mass of more or less enlightened public for whom those four masters were undecipherable phenomena. It is a fact that now people make an effort to see without their...
...nominate one who not only has been the spearhead of sincere liberalism in the South, but who has awakened people over our entire nation to work towards a better understanding of minority groups-Governor Ellis Arnall of Georgia...
Then the Republicans really got to work. Governor Earl Warren, sure of re-election and silent so far in the campaign, found his voice. He took aim at Henry Wallace as "a spearhead" of an attack in California "by leftist organizations that are attuned to the Communist movement." Wallace, said the Governor, "is no more qualified to tell Californians how to vote than a man who has broken up his own home is qualified to tell his neighbors how they should regulate their family affairs...
...baiter, whose radio punditing deals as often with fancy as with fact; Merwin K. Hart, insurance lawyer, author, lecturer, admirer of Franco's Spain and scorner of the word "democracy," who once declared: "Tougher products result from a Fascist education"; John T. Flynn, writer, vitriolic and acid-tongued spearhead of the prewar, now defunct, America First Committee...
...literature," proclaimed Andrei Zhdanov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and spearhead of a four-month-long campaign to clean up Russia's intellectual front, "is not a private enterprise. . . . We demand that our comrades, as leaders of literature and as authors, should be guided by that without which the Soviet system cannot live-politics...