Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scales of the present human struggle on the side of the enemies of democracy. . . . We insist that a church which would link its destiny to that of the state must be kept at arm's length by the state." The statement was made public by Kenneth Leslie, left-wing editor of The Protestant. Among its signers: Dr. John A. Mackay (Presbyterian), of Princeton Theological Seminary; Bishop Francis J. McConnell (Methodist); Dr. Edwin Mc-Neill Poteat (Baptist), of Colgate-Rochester Divinity School...
...First Day. First off, Henry Wallace was left with almost no high-placed Administration bigwig to fight for him publicly. His on-the-scene supporters were all in the New Deal wing in the Senate, headed by Florida's Pepper and Montana's Murray. But they are not strategists. Thus it fell to Majority Leader Alben Barkley, abed in Naval Hospital with an ulcerated eye, to get up and lead the Wallace fight. First thing Barkley did was to demand a pro-Wallace statement from the White House. It was not immediately forthcoming...
...Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov's First White Russian Army suddenly threw caution to the winds and dashed for Berlin, the answer would be yes. Best guess: he would not. Although his frontal thrust toward the heart of the Reich made heartening headlines, military analysts watched his northern wing with increasing interest. That wing had probed to within 20 miles of Stettin. Paradoxically it was a greater threat to Berlin than the shorter thrust through the twin Oder River fortresses of Frankfurt and Küstrin, where the Germans had chosen to make an armored stand...
Flanking Threats. Although Marshal Zhukov aimed his biggest spear at Berlin, his northern wing had pounded to within 20 miles of Berlin's Baltic port of Stettin. That drive threatened to cut off 11,000 square miles of Germany's northeastern province of Pomerania...
...pointedly clear of the many problems presently besetting the world and sets before its audience neat, imaginative comedy with a touch of light sophistication that makes for decidedly good theatre. Instead of tackling the complexities of international intrigue, playwright Barry and his leading lady, Tallulah Bankhead, plunge into Sophie Wing's domestic difficulties, complex and intriguing in their own entertaining...