Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three-Way Divide. Less noisily, Faure and supporters made plans of their own. Working agreements were concluded for alliances among Faure's right-wing Radicals, Robert Schuman's Popular Republicans, and Antoine Pinay's conservative Independents. With the main battle lines drawn, political observers guessed that Faure-Pinay rightists would emerge as the biggest winners with about 250 seats, Mendes and his allies with perhaps 150; the Communists were expected to pick up 20 seats or so for a total of 120. Thus the probability was a new Assembly divided into three major blocs, with no clear...
Many have turned to Labor's fastest-rising star and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Gaitskell. -The Rivals. Oxford-bred Hugh Gaitskell, sharp-witted and sharp-tongued, was once considered too donnish for the workingman, but now at 49, he has become the right-wing trade unionists' favorite candidate against the rambunctious but embittered left-winger Nye Bevan...
Most of the activities at Patrick are not for publication. Except for the Matador, an "aerodynamic" (wing-supported) missile that is operational and obsolete, the public gets only glimpses of the birds that it puts on the wing. Some of them rise out of the atmosphere, but not all. One of them, the Snark, has had so many mishaps that the sea near the start of the range has been ruefully called the "Snark-infested waters of Cape Canaveral...
Wechsler, editor of the New York Post, disputed the common viewpoint that the press is controlled by liberals. He named the Hearst, Scripps-Howard, and Gannett papers and the Chicago Tribune as examples of powerful right wing newspapers...
Gord Marlow, second line right wing, led Crimson scoring with three tallies. Other Yardling goals were made by Bill Collins, left wing, Dave Vietze, center, and Dick Fischer, left wing...