Search Details

Word: wing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Deal-hating Pundit David Lawrence last week revealed what he fears: Franklin Roosevelt will win Term IV by a "substantial" electoral majority. The Lawrence logic: "The isolationist wing of the Republican Party is daily growing bolder and bolder. Unless checked in the next six months, [it] will virtually hand the election to Mr. Roosevelt on a plat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Term IV: All Set | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

Service Heroes. Thousands of miles from warehouses and the parts they needed, the service crews of the A.S.C. have made do with what they had. They have worked without shelter in an Arctic gale, twisting hundreds of little screws to replace a broken wing spar on a B24. When tools were lacking, they made their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Big Store | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...prejudices are likely to be accentuated. ... If we lend ourselves to breaking up . . . into partisan groups and cliques, we are playing into the hands of the enemy. More than that, we are jeopardizing our entire national future. Many of us in the '30s feared that a left-wing reaction would draw labor so far away from the main body of American sentiment that the gap could not be closed without a disastrous struggle. ... I am deeply alarmed today over the possibility that a right-wing reaction may draw some sections of capital so far away from our traditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: Fireworks at the Waldorf | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...came in on a busy Thanksgiving afternoon. Zero pilots were getting in flying time at low altitudes while green-painted bombers, on the way to the great battles of the southwest Pacific, were parked wing tip to wing tip. It was a peaceful scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: On the Nose | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...comparatively undamaged wing of the Foreign Office von Ribbentrop and his press chief, Dr. Paul Schmidt, held their conferences as usual. The Foreign Minister was grimy-faced; Schmidt had his arm in a sling. Both wore steel helmets pushed down over their heads. Glass crunched underfoot and the wind blew cold through the broken windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Heart Still Beats | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

Previous | 176 | 177 | 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | Next