Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with my own people." That afternoon is being spent in considerable comfort in a 34-room mansion near Charles Town built in 1820 by a grandnephew of George Washington, and "restored" last year by Mrs. Funkhouser. His opponents like to point out that he teaches Sunday School in one wing of the mansion and plays poker in the other. This is true but somewhat unfair, for his piety is well tested; he even forbids swearing at the poker table...
...medieval tapestries stayed on their long rollers. All were guarded by an electric signal system wired to a specially installed power plant in the house. They were also guarded by 13 picked Metropolitan staff members, all family men doomed to temporary bachelorhood, who moved into the former servants' wing. The only servants were one cook, one maid...
...afternoon last week a tall man in a black coat and wing collar stood before the House of Commons. The rumble of Winston Churchill's oratory had faded. Members had drifted out until the semicircular chamber was less than half full. The tall man's large, coldly impressive face moved hardly a muscle, his hands rarely stirred as he informed the House, in tones as dry as a corncob, of a complex plan to stabilize world currencies...
...last week. The Blue Network program, Yanks in the Orient, was the first of 13 programs being recorded on the spot by U.S. Army Public Relations and flown to the U.S. by Air Transport Command.* It told the story of the Rescue Squadron of A.T.C.'s India-China wing...
...craggy Yugoslav villages, where for three years the sound of aircraft had been a sign as dread as the shadow of a hawk's wing across a henyard, villagers looked up at first in fear. Then they rushed out and cheered: the big formations of heavy bombers drumming overhead in stately alignment were U.S. planes outward bound from their bases in Italy...