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Offensively, Ford said, "we started off differently [at the half] with Grassby playing in front of Acorn and Bullard as a spearhead." Sweeper forward Matt Bowyer shifted back to halfback to work as a link with Saunders...
...years later the CIA brought 60 Dominican exiles to a secret site in Venezuela, intending to use them as the spearhead of an invasion force to overthrow and kill Trujillo. But the Dominicans decided that the mission would be suicidal and backed out. In 1961, the CIA turned over three fast-firing M-l carbines and 500 rounds of ammunition concealed in a box of groceries to an intermediary for delivery to Angel Severo Cabral, a member of a group of right-wing Dominicans who were plotting against Trujillo. They apparently had expected more extensive material help from...
...middle-class values may alienate working-class voters. Under the leadership of Macmillan, Home and Heath, the Conservatives had increasingly modified their traditional commitment to free-market policies, accepting a degree of both social welfarism and state interference in business. Mrs. Thatcher wants to reverse that trend and spearhead a return to a more traditional Tory credo: "I believe that a person who is prepared to work harder should receive greater rewards and keep them after tax. I believe that we should back the workers and not the shirkers; that it is not only permissible but praiseworthy to want...
...endowment allowed, Crane and all other entrepreneurs looked across the street to Harvard Trust for fiscal leadership. Robert R. Duncan, president of the bank during the fifties, a man whom business people in the Square still remember as a "mover and a shaker," proved to be the perfect spearhead. Insurance man Dyer grumbles about the current leadership scene saying that if you asked him who could move things in Harvard Square today, ten minutes later he still wouldn't be able to come up with a name. But, Dyer points out quickly, "If you had a problem in those days...
...Crimson fastbreak rolled as Jonas Honick began to pop from the outside and forward Arnie Needleman went to work inside. Honick hit 5 for 8 and Needleman added 9 points to spearhead the Crimson to a 39-27 halftime edge...