Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jolt for the Left. But the Reutherites were still not satisfied. Murray made a diplomat's gambit. He appointed a committee to draw up a resolution which would satisfy the right wing and not offend the left. The six-man committee was delicately balanced. From the right wing: Reuther; Milton Murray* of the Newspaper Guild; onetime Socialist Emil Rieve of the textile workers; from the left: the furriers' Communist boss, Ben Gold; red-hot Michael Quill of the transport workers, who has been denying for years that he is a Communist; the white-collar workers' pink Abram...
Most of them now work in a reconverted wing of the Sperry Gyroscope Plant at Lake Success, L.I. Their offices, nicknamed "rabbit warren," are cramped, mostly without windows, and erratically air-conditioned. The international civil servants work hard, gripe some, get on without nationalist friction but also without ardent international friendship. Few of them have a sense of high mission in their work; last week, their foremost hope was that the Assembly would get done before Christmas. But most observers agreed that they were doing a workmanlike job of keeping the Assembly grinding away at its curiously varied tasks...
...leader in international religious movements since he helped organize the World's Student Christian Federation in 1895. In World War I he headed the Y.M.C.A.'s canteen and prisoner-of-war work. Last week, in retirement at Orlando, Fla., he was "mildly astonished." Scandinavia's left-wing newspapers were not only astonished but angry: they had hoped the prize would go to Madame Alexandra Kollontay, 74, ex-Soviet Ambassador to Stockholm, who helped arrange the 1944 peace between Russia and Finland...
Elis Score on Pass from Wing...
...score came on an attack which the Bulldogs developed down the left side of the field. Charged by the Crimson left halfback, the Yale left wing lifted a long center from the side of the field, which was headed in by Griggs cutting from his right wing position...