Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playwright Rattigan (French without Tears, While the Sun Shines) has spun out a commonplace, lifeless comedy about a poor but charming widow who becomes the mistress of a Cabinet minister. Life is gay and she is happy until her priggish Left-Wing young son returns from Canada and is outraged to find his mother living in luxurious sin. He forces her back into virtuous drabness-but not for too long...
...Russian assault pivoted on Budapest had become a triple threat: 1) the reinforced city garrisons were in danger of complete encirclement, with retreat to Vienna's defense cut off; 2) Malinovsky's center and right wing were arching in a 50-mile-wide pincers movement for another possible entrapment; 3) Marshal Fedor I. Tolbukhin's big force southwest of Budapest was in position to swing north in a separate drive on Vienna...
...miles by 50. It's also very close to Luzon." That was Mindoro's chief value and every man in Dunckel's force knew it. From the San José airfields, patrols could wing far over the South China Sea, harrying Jap shipping; Luzon could be softened for invasion and General MacArthur's return to Manila. Mindoro's fields would take the load off Admiral "Bull" Halsey's carrier airmen, who even then, acting as tactical air force for MacArthur, were smashing at the Japs' Philippine airdromes...
...Battle of the Danube Bend-began with a large force bypassing Budapest and swinging around the knee of the great river north of Hungary's capital. Overrunning deeply staggered German defense lines built along canals and streams, the Russians captured Vac, 15 miles above Budapest, flung their right wing as far north as the Slovakian border...
...City. An armed showdown had come between the Communist-cored EAM and its fighting wing ELAS on the one side, and the coalition Government of Socialist Premier George Papandreou with the backing of the British occupation forces, on the other. Ever since the police fired on a forbidden EAM demonstration, called to protest the surrender of its arms (TIME, Dec. 11), open warfare had raged in the ancient capital...