Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City Museum of Sundsvall, center of the timber industry, keeps the stuffed remnants of the only wild "skvader" hitherto known to have been caught. The skvader has a hare's head and legs (with the typical capercailzie red patch over the eyes), and the wings and hind body of a capercailzie. . . . Very little is known about the habits of the skvader. Owing to the great wing loading, its flyability is probably poor, if any. The taxidermist, who prepared it, died without revealing the place where he had caught the unique specimen. No zoologist has been able...
France's left-wing leaders trimmed their sails to the prevailing wind. The Communists came about with their usual adroitness. They dropped the "Thorez to Power!" slogan, issued a manifesto with the new line: "Republican unity at all costs!" Wrote Socialist Secretary General Daniel Mayer in the Party organ, Le Populaire: "The Socialist Party is ready once again to strive for conciliation of all Republicans...
Thus, one sultry afternoon Last week, a militant wing of U.S. labor opened the joust in a conservative and hostile land...
...clock in Sanders Theatre, Stassen announced at a press conference on Tuesday that he would not be drawn into what he called "partisan politics." The ex-governor deemed the background of his lectures as inappropriate for swinging either on the Democrats or on the more conservative wing of his own party...
...originally designed as a bomber, with the Army footing the $25,000,000 bill for developing and building the first two models. But Jack Northrop has his eye on the commercial field also. He claims that Flying Wing transports could carry 25% more weight 25% farther and faster than a conventional plane of identical power and weight. And it would be better suited for the upcoming jet motors. Northrop has built and flown four smaller two-motored models of this design. But when the big wing is test-hopped in two months, his theories will get their toughest practical test...