Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Party organization was the other basic factor which led to Braucher's support of Eisenhower. "I find it easier to separate Eisenhower from Jenner and his wing of the party, than to divorce Stevenson from Eastland and his supporters...
...Single Wing--The single wing has many variations, but, in general, it seeks a heavy concentration of men at the point of attack. The Crimson formation of last year, using an unbalanced line with one end wide, is pictured below...
...Formation--The A-Formation is somewhat of a compromise between the single wing and the "T". The present Harvard formation might best be described as a single-wing line unbalanced to the right with a T-Formation backfield...
...chief advantage is that it allows the varsity to use a mild form of multiple offense: the backfield can shift from the T to a single wing formation on successive plays, and thus vary the attack...
...left-wing viewers-with-alarm begged Harry Truman to stow the A-bomb away in the national attic. The Russians, they said, could not possibly develop the bomb for at least a decade. Truman refused -and the Soviet Union, depending heavily on Joseph Stalin's army of scientists and his very effective spies, came forth with the atomic bomb in 1949. Again, the hand-wringers pleaded with Truman not to go ahead with the H-bomb. Truman did go ahead-and because he did, the U.S. got under the wire by a few short months and escaped the earth...