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point man
noun
In combat, the soldier who takes point; the soldier who assumes the first and most exposed position in a combat military formation; the lead soldier/unit advancing through hostile or unsecured territory.
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Rabbi Leib Glantz became their point man.
George serves as their intellectual point man.
(Cambone was Rumsfeld's point man on interrogation policy).
In some ways, he is an accidental point man.
-- he was the point man," Mr. Obey said.
Councilman Ed Buscemi was the students' point man.
Mr. Clegg is the new government's point man on these issues.
He is point man for the Administration on the Asia economic crisis.
Mr Bissonnette says he was directly behind a "point man" going up the stairs.
The point man, a twenty-eight-year-old named Marc Lee, began climbing the stairs.
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Mr Hubbard is the administration's point-man on Japan.
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