Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the room-temperature burgundy and the chopped chicken liver, politics came to Hollywood. As the battle began, the right wing took up prepared positions at the swank Beverly-Wilshire Hotel. The left strung its forces along rows of white-clothed tables at the equally swank palm-studded Beverly Hills Hotel, three miles away. Then the giants fired deadly after-dinner speeches at each other...
...already said that he preferred to postpone an election. But that did not mean that he would not call one. That depended on the opposition. Grant Dexter, associate editor of the Winnipeg Free Press, closer to Mr. King's line than other newsmen, suggested last week that one wing of the Prime Minister's Progressive Conservative opposition is anxious to challenge him on foreign policy. Wrote Dexter: "The curious thing is that they [the Conservatives] are just as certain the Canadian people will vote for a single-voice policy for the Commonwealth as the Liberals are that...
...this feat the flight leader received the Silver Star, his copilot the Distinguished Flying Cross. The pilot of the wing ship received the Air Medal, the copilot nothing. The enlisted men received no decorations...
...lead plane released no bombs because the pilot (flight leader) neglected to check the safety switch. "The" bomb which hit the target was released by the copilot of the wing ship, the same copilot who received no decoration...
...Said Wing Commander Eric John Hodsoll, A.R.P. Inspector General: "Antigas precautions have been tightened up. The Germans will regard the interruption of our invasion operations as their first objective and might use any weapon...