Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover) The sharp, rhythmic tattoo of a fast buck and wing ricocheted off the tile floor of a Sacramento bathroom one day last week, and echoed through the door. Visitors in the adjoining suite of offices heard distinctly the merry foot-tapping and understood the message it telegraphed: The governor of California was happy...
...come. His dismay on the day after the election was acute. "If you think Tom Dewey and Governor Warren are disappointed," he wailed, "think of me. I had the furniture in the governor's mansion rearranged a dozen times." In 1950 Knight, spurred on by his right-wing supporters, announced that he would run against Warren. But when Warren announced his own candidacy, Goodie prudently withdrew...
...have risked his newly-acquired office until October, 1956. But the talking points of existing prosperity and probable talks with Russia "at the summit" were too good to pass by. Besides, the Labour party was just at that time embarrassingly split by internal feuds. Its moderate wing, represented by former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, had been driven rightwards by attacks from the Bevanites on the left. A party which failed to maintain the support of its own members, the Conservatives reasoned, could hardly hope for the support of the nation...
...Communist-run Japanese Teachers Union, and acted by dozens of A-bomb survivors who offered their services free, Hiroshima originally contained so many gruesome horrors and so anti-American a line that Japan's Education Ministry protested. No reputable distributor would agree to handle it, and the left-wing company that finally took it over has since gone bankrupt...
...conference on Wednesday, the President showed that Administration thinking runs along this line. "Certain sectors of our population," Mr. Eisenhower said, "unquestionably will have to make adjustments because they have not thought these things through." Indeed, one of the crucial questions of American policy will be whether the right wing of the President's own party will ever be able to subordinate its particular interests to the interests of the nation as a whole...