Word: spearheads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quartet of Tories who opposed Munich-Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Lord Salisbury-never really made common cause with him. Prime Minister Churchill tucked him away in what was to become the Ministry of Education. There he hammered through the Education Act of 1944 with the slogan, "Education is the spearhead of social reform," giving all British children for the first time the assurance of education...
Indicative of the tightness of the Yale group is the fact that the team captain, Friedman, has run as far back as fifth in previous races. Teammates Bachrach, Tom Carroll (freshman 880 record holder), Kathcart, and Morrison will spearhead the Bulldog attack. Princeton does not promise much trouble for either squad...
...most important changes which adoption of the report would establish lie in the composition of the Council's membership. The Council's existence has rested on the democratic but unrealistic belief that it is the spearhead of student opinion. Elections affording an ambitious, personally motivated politician the opportunity to capitalize on undergraduate apathy do not result in true representation. With elections under the new House and Class constituency proposal, students may still have to elect politicians-but they will know their politicians better...
...Communism can be viewed as an anti-Western movement or as the spearhead of Western ideas" according to Christopher Dawson, Charles Chauncey Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic studies. Dawson, the first Roman Catholic to be appointed to the Divinity School, held a press conference there yesterday...
...know the famous metaphor: 'The fellaghas are the iron head of the lance.' Very well. But what if the lance no longer has a stave? What does one do with the spearhead when it is not any longer on the stave...