Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allied air power worked on Germany last week like a two-man saw. East of the Oder River, U.S. Mustang fighters from bases in Britain flew wing to wing with Red Army Yaks to beat off a German attack on a Russian airfield. In Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia, Americans from Italy joined Russian airmen in attacks. U.S. Mustangs downed German fighters shooting at Red bombers...
...Luzon Major General Leonard F. Wing's 43rd ("Winged Victory") Division, onetime New England National Guard outfit, surged forward to smash the southern end of the "Shimbu Line" system of caves, trenches and concrete fortifications 15 miles east of Manila...
...lofty patriotism and adroit politics. Well brushed, well tailored old metaphors ("We held aloft the flaming torch of free dom when all around the night was black as jet") clothed his sturdy Tory form ("We have endured patiently, almost silently, many provocations from that happily limited class of left-wing politicians to whom party strife is the breath of their nostrils"). By the time he reached his glowing peroration, 43 minutes later, the Tory leader had shown how he proposed to win the general election...
...there is a great deal more than opportunism in Tory support for Lord Wool-ton's plans. The relatively youthful, forward-looking left wing of the Party-the Tory Reform Committee-which believes in the practical approach to progress, looks upon them with favor. The big industrialists, who have largely succeeded the old aristocracy as the backbone of the Tory Party, are also more than halfwilling...
...bewildered National Hockey League goalies with its machine-gun procession of shots. When the season ended this week, the trio had rolled up a dazzling, all-time scoring record of 104 goals, giving the Canadiens the League victory (won 38, tied 4, lost 8). Individual performances by Right Wing Maurice ("The Rocket") Richard, Center Elmer ("Ski Jump") Lach and Left Wing Hector ("Toe") Blake were just as brilliant as the teamwork: Richard had zinged a record-breaking total of 50 goals; Lach had made 53 assists, four over the previous record...