Word: spearheaded
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...wins the Democratic primary, he will fight it out next November with the G.O.P.'s handsome, grey Governor Dwight Green, able, amiable yes-man of Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Chicago Tribune. The New Dealish Sun gave a well-modulated cheer: "[Courtney] has an opportunity to spearhead a fighting campaign to rescue Illinois from ... the G.O.P.'s worst tory-isolationists...
...Ranger's greatest feat was to spearhead a British task force last October in a daring raid into Norwegian waters, well within range of German land-based bombers. In two attacks the carrier's planes sank four merchantmen, a tanker and an oil barge, damaged other ships and shot down a Junkers 88 and a Messerschmitt 115. The carrier was undamaged, lost only three planes. When she got back to port, British warcraft "cheered the ship" as she passed down the line, in a rare salute to a U.S. Navy ship and crew...
...came clear hints that even Rumania might fare better in the settlements than anti-Slav, anti-Communist Hungary. To the Kremlin, Rumania under a changed regime (and minus Bessarabia) might yet become a friend, worthy to receive Transylvania; Budapest would remain the center of anti-Russian plots, a handy spearhead for any future German Drang nach Osten. It would take a mighty swing inside Hungary to shake the Russian view...
...narrow road that winds toward the coastal town of Ortona in eastern Italy, a Canadian division was in its fiercest fight. General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had secretly switched his Canadians out of the Apennines to make them part of the spearhead he thrust towards the key Adriatic port of Pescara. For the first time since Sicily, the Canadians were being regularly mentioned in Allied communiqués. Those fighting on an eight-mile front were battlewise veterans of Sicily. They had been with the Eighth Army in its 500-mile march across the heel and up Italy...
...roads cut westward through the Apennines toward Rome. But the Germans were by no means routed along the Adriatic. They had nasty machine-gun nests on every roadside slope up to Pescara. They posted expendables in every village. They counterattacked; at one place, Orsogna, they turned back an Eighth spearhead...