Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...understands the forces at work in the world well enough to pervert their meanings into brass-bold and effective propaganda. And it has long been apparent that when the Third Reich came to crisis-as it is now in crisis-power would go either to Goebbels' radical "leftist" wing of the Nazi Party, or to a "rightist" army clique...
...notoriously reactionary Chen Brothers control the Kuomintang Party. Chen Kuo-fu, 54, Chief of Personnel of the Gissimo's staff, and Chen Li-fu, 53, Minister of Education, who together represent the extreme right wing...
Smoother and sleeker than its prototype, the new Corsair is made distinctive by its inverted gull wing, which makes possible a short, light, retractable landing gear and still leaves room for the big three-bladed propeller to clear the ground on take-off runs...
...fringe of greater London. Founded in 1907, the school normally enrolls some 470 boys and girls, aged 11 to 19, drawn from a four-mile radius. The school is set in a park off a quiet country lane-a century-old, red brick manse flanked by a modern wing containing five science laboratories, a domestic science kitchen, a large gymnasium with locker rooms and showers. Near by is a twelve-acre playing field...
...erstwhile geometrician were to follow any one of the infinitude of tangents he can plot around the well-known circle, it would be just as likely as not that he would find himself, perhaps a trifle bewildered, at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the northern wing of the University Museum way down on Oxford Street. And being there, it is equally possible (and also, for the sake of this treatise) that he might seek out the library at the museum...