Word: spearheaded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 475 '24 graduates and their families spearhead the giant Harvard delegation of fans along with the spryer members of 1899 and the soberer of the 1939 crowd. The male members of this throng will march behind the band to the filed shortly before game time, while mothers and daughters will struggle to the diamond as best they...
South of the city, the Communist vanguard surged on to a point halfway between Shanghai and the refugee Nationalist capital of Canton. More than 350 miles of the Shanghai-Canton railway were in Red hands. Another Communist spearhead was within 150 miles of the vital seaport of Foochow. West of Shanghai, Nationalist General Pai Chung-hsi's armies withdrew hurriedly as the rugged, battle-tried armies of General Lin Piao opened attack on the industrial center of Hankow, gateway to the "rice bowl of China...
...first serious clash was in the northwest, at the town of La Cruz (pop. 2,000), where an advance column of attackers from Nicaragua with jeeps, mortars and automatic weapons routed the 15 customs guards in the local garrison. Figueres estimated the invasion spearhead at 800 to 1,000 men, of whom about 100 were genuine Costa Rican exiles. The rest, he charged, were Communists, mercenaries, and a hard core of picked troops from Nicaragua's Guardia National...
...Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill promised the Generalissimo to crush Japan and restore all Chinese territory lost in half a century of struggle with the Japanese. Formally, China became one of the "Big Five." When the war ended, China drew a long breath and turned to reconstruction. The spearhead of Chiang's planned reconstruction of China was Manchuria, with its coal and iron and factories. At the last moment, it was snatched from China's hand...
Rudy Cosentino has filled the gap left by fullback "Rip" Rowan's graduation. He works well on the quick openers that spearhead the Army...