Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary W. Averell Harriman, an able administrator and an adept public speaker, could probably be persuaded; but he was almost too rich. Also wealthy and able was Lewis Douglas, Ambassador to Britain. There were only a few prospects counted out for sure by Democratic headquarters. Florida's left-wing Senator Claude Pepper was one such. Just about everybody believed the political disclaimer of Secretary of State George Marshall (who would become President if Harry Truman died in office). Ike Eisenhower, who had tried hard to squash presidential rumors, would be even less likely to consider the No. 2 spot...
...Seeing so many men at one time is a blessing," smiles Miss Zelda Cushner, Vassar '48, looking up from her table at Widener. Zelda has inyaded the traditionally all-male library reading room under the protective wing of official sanction--a rare commodity among the fair sex--and is digging in for two months of solid work...
Leaders of the "non-party line" wing of the University American Veterans Committee won a striking victory last night, when all but one member of their slate achieved success in the chapter's annual balloting for executive committee posts...
...Wing Flappers...
Frankie was charged with battery and freed on $500 bail. He would be tried by a jury May 27. He flew off to Manhattan, where the Council Against Intolerance in America gave him a prize for other efforts. Manhattan's left-winging tabloid PM, on Frankie's side, dignified the brawl with a 1,000-word editorial. (He "must have warmed the hearts of millions," said PM-but conceded that this was probably not the best way to strike a blow at race prejudice.) In the Hearstpapers-which painstakingly reviewed Frankie's association with left-wing groups...