Word: vanguardism
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...time machine only with a staff of young people, which includes his two daughters. Because these young staffers are the only people whose bodies are still resilient enough to withstand the physical rigors of the time trip, the scientist elects to send them off into the future as a vanguard and last hope of humanity...
This is not to say that the vanguard is wiped out. There are survivors, and of an especially dangerous kind. They share with their progenitors a blind, suicidal faith not only in science, but also in the righteousness of anything that is called progress. They bring about a horrifying but crazily logical ending that turns the future into a forbidding present tense...
...middle of last week, 791 Swedes, Finns, Irishmen and Austrians from the United Nations peace-keeping force in Cyprus had picked their way through heavily mined areas to positions between the Egyptian and Israeli armies along the Suez Canal. The first and most difficult objective of this vanguard of what is expected to be a 7,000-man United Nations Emergency Force was to locate the cease-fire line on the west bank of the Suez Canal. Last week TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin visited the U.N. forces and sent this report...
...Traditionally, college students have been at the vanguard of political change," Apostola said, "and we must continue to do so. We're organizing to be the driving force to push people to keep the impeachment movement running...
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