Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage only a depiction of their own small lives." Wrote another: "Who knows but what [Premier] De Gasperi may have got mixed up in the theater and staged this? Like him, it praises all the simple virtues-but it is so very, very dull." Complained a hungry-sounding left-wing critic: "In every act someone is eating something. This kind of home-cooked comedy . . . represents...
Beresford Richards, the loud-mouthed CCFer who was once suspended from his party for urging a CCF coalition with other left-wing parties, rose in the Manitoba Legislature to denounce U.S. troops stationed in Canada. "Canada," said he, "is being sucked into United States' . . . militarism and is in grave danger of losing her sovereignty." A U.S. plane, he added, had been stunting only 60 feet over houses in The Pas, Man., and "the citizens were very angry." He demanded that all U.S. troops in Manitoba (there are 113 at the Canadian base at Fort Churchill) be forced to leave...
Burned: a wing of the Archibald Roosevelts' home on Long Island. Smoke woke the 52-year-old Colonel-only surviving son of "Teddy"-at 5:30 a.m. Estimated damage...
...book becomes a secondary matter. It's built around a sharply-pointed parody of Joe College on his home grounds tossing out below-the-belt punches at the fraternity system, big dumb football heroes, Big Men On the Campus, Student Council elections, and particularly at the amateur left wing. Wrapped up in these goings-on is Asa Hearthrug a naive but willing freshman, played ably enough by Billy Redfield, who finds himself torn among three variegated bits of campus femininity...
...pound class Bob Claflin, much improved since his first match a month ago, got an easy 7 to 1 decision while Crimson captain Don Louria bulldozed Don Rourke to a 6 to 2 decision. Frank Trinkle used a half nelson and chicken wing to pin the Wesleyan 136-pounder in 2:28 of the first period...