Word: spearheaded
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...Argentina, said Assistant Secretary of State William L. Clayton, there were 104 German "spearhead" firms. Not one had been completely eliminated...
This week the Army & Navy prepared to move up their heavy artillery. Scheduled to testify were War Secretary Stimson, Navy Secretary Forrestal, Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, and probably many of the generals recently returned from Europe. To spearhead its argument, the Administration will depend on General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, the man who, although hating war, raised and trained the army which is helping to win World War II. General Marshall's often-expressed views on peacetime conscription are adamant: he is for it with no reservations...
...walls honeycombed with Japanese caves, leading to Wawa Dam east of Manila. The tanks stalled in the bouldered terrain. So they called up lanky Charles R. Oliver Jr., who a year ago was a Wortham, Tex. high-school student, gave him a bazooka and appointed him spearhead...
...last airborne operation was a gem of its type. Sooner or later we shall have others, each, we hope, equally good in its own particular class-dropping in front of an armored spearhead or seizing an airhead from which to build up other strong forces. ''Horizon unlimited," indeed...
...Group, flew a Piper Cub to one airfield, flew a Stinson to another, slept on the floor, saw Patton, wrote the piece riddled by censorship rules, slept on the floor, jeeped to the XII Corps Headquarters, slept on the floor, changed jeeps for a 125-mile ride through spearhead territory, slept on the floor, jeeped back to Corps Headquarters through towns that exactly 20 minutes later were reoccupied by 5,000 Germans in a moving pocket, reached Corps Headquarters to find I had only 35 minutes in which to write the piece, on a German typewriter with letters...