Word: vanguard
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...inverted pipe curl (not gutter, as stated) was conceived, not by a madman . . . but by a master born out of his time, like Picasso. He visualized a market of individualists, and his vision was inspired by deep study of 18th-Century social history. Unfortunately the vanguard of standardized man was already overrunning England, the last stronghold of the individualist, and his creation . . . was, alas, only transitory. By some mischance not readily accounted for, this type of hat was overlooked by Mr. Churchill, and I have always felt that neglect from such a connoisseur was a blow that no hat could...
...CASTLE WALTZ-Louis Slobodkin-Vanguard...
Conservative, Communist. Socialist and Radical Party leaders, arms linked, strode together in the crowd's vanguard. Young students and elderly aristocrats, Army and Navy officers in mufti, even women had broken through social and professional barriers to demonstrate their common disgust with Colonel Perón and his heavy-handed military dictatorship...
...Third Fleet stood in to Sagami Bay, southwest of Tokyo. Even its vanguard made a ponderous show of power, with great U.S. and British battleships...
...Long a vanguard authority on atomic structure, he is, say his colleagues, "one of the world's greatest geniuses, no question about it." The Stretch. When, in March 1941, the process was discovered for manufacturing the atomic explosive, chemists feared it would take years to perfect a method of making it in quantity. Measurements accurate to 3% of one microgram (about one two-millionth the weight of a human breath) had to be established...