Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least six of the ten men fired claimed (to their lawyers) that they had done nothing subversive; one thought he had been fired because his name had somehow got on the mailing lists of a left-wing book store. They also claimed that they had not been able to find out the specific charges against them, to defend themselves before their accusers, or to appeal the decision that cost them their jobs...
Then Florida's left-wing Senator Claude Pepper spoke up. Leaving a White House conference, he told reporters that "the President should be and will be nominated and should be and will bo elected." He had given up all ideas of a third party headed by Henry Wallace. Said Pepper: "I think Mr. Wallace can render his best service by continuing to be a private citizen who speaks his mind freely...
...completely as possible to the views of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He ought to be someone who can command not only the strong but the enthusiastic support of organized labor and the working people in general." No one doubted that Claude Pepper, friend of Russia and darling of the left wing, was looking in the mirror as he was speaking...
...French Ambassador to Rome, Cardinal de Polignac, was the first to take Pannini under his wing. He commissioned the grateful painter to portray him standing in St. Peter's. Later Pannini painted Charles III of Spain in the same setting. Sometimes, even after his reputation was assured, the artist would not refuse to turn an honest penny by decorating a villa, or whipping up cardboard clouds, fountains and triumphal arches for a sumptuous private fete. But apart from these somewhat theatrical preoccupations, most of Pannini's 74 years were spent among the monuments of a greater age, which...
...salute you with a flip of the silver wing...