Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dramatic gesture would shock the Social Democrats into submission. But when the city council met again last week, the majority of its members proved ready and eager to find another mayor. Unfazed, La Pira pulled another card out of his sleeve: along with 24 Christian Democrats and two right-wing Liberals, he resigned from the council itself. By so doing, he hoped to make it impossible for the city government to function and thereby force new elections-elections in which he might hope to win a majority of the council seats. "Have patience," he told a worried follower...
...much as walk without a cane. He then horrified the R.A.F.'s brass, which nervously denied him a peacetime flying commission. And ultimately, during the Battle of Britain, he painfully distressed the German Luftwaffe. For the few to whom so many owed so much owed much indeed to Wing Commander Douglas Bader, the dogfighting fool who hammered out, in the heat of battle, many of the fighter tactics that prevented a German invasion of England...
...pernicious Cambridge weather, which had plagued varsity crew practices all week long, continued its devilment last Saturday as a 15 m.p.h. head-wing during the varsity race brought whitecaps to the Charles River and frustration to the rowers. When the race was over, a strong Princeton eight had outclassed the Crimson with a blistering sprint in the last quarter mile to win the Compton...
...Reese Committee, he stated, investigated tax-exempt foundations and concluded that "left-wing social scientists" were behind many activities which the committee considered subversive...
Several local standouts will be playing their last match for the Crimson this afternoon, including flank John Chalsty from the Business School and including seniors Jim Joslin at fly-half, Joe Conzelman in the centre, Ron Eikenberry on the wing, and Bill Shane and captain Terry Turner in the forwards...