Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Thomson is a first class bird dog; furthermore he is an idiot. Contending that Republican speakers would be dragged over the coals by a left wing organization goes against the fact that the Forum has had trouble finding members to oppose the resolution against recognition of Red China," charged George M. Fredrickson '56, past president of the Harvard Debate Council...
...score was 1 to 1 at the end of the period, despite the fact that the Crimson was passing well, easily forcing play into the offensive zone. The missing factor was accurate shooting; for, time after time, a Crimson wing swerved around the defense only to miss the cage with his shot...
...Discontented. Mollet's coalition began crumbling in the first moments of spoils-dividing. Pierre Mendès-France, pouting over the electoral results that made Mollet and not himself the senior partner in their left-wing coalition, could not be Foreign Minister (because Good European Mollet mistrusts the man who killed EDC), and would not be Finance Minister (because Mendès opposes Socialist monetary doctrine). So Mendès accepted the office of Minister of State without Portfolio and went off into a vast chandeliered office, there (Socialists feared) to ponder fresh ways to get back to power...
...chosen President last spring, pleasantly explained to Stevens how he would go about arranging the "opening to the left." First he would ditch the Christian Democrats' small but stout allies, the Liberals (the nearest Italian equivalent to a free-enterprise party). They are a good, democratic right-wing group, Gronchi conceded, but there is no place for them in the "progressivist government" he envisages for Italy. Dropping them would leave the Christian Democrats in need of votes to command a majority, and Stevens asked where they would come from...
...Kings, and likes to recall that she literally brought down the house; during her final exit, part of the ceiling collapsed. All that remained was for her to be discovered by a big-time impresario. She was. Luben Vichey, Met basso lately turned concert manager, took her under his wing. "You will have a career, Beverly," he says sternly and prophetically. "No marriage for you. No children. Career...