Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enlisted in the Reserve as a machinist's mate second class, with the specific intention of becoming an aviator. After ground training at M.I.T. he went to Pensacola and learned to fly the Navy's N-9-an old Jenny dressed up with a pontoon and wing floats. Commissioned a Reserve ensign, Pride was designated Naval Aviator No. 1119. At the end of the war he was in Europe...
Ichiro Hatoyama had good cause for elation. Last week the big Kyodo news agency polled voters and confirmed the Asahi verdict: 40.8% for Hatoyama; 18% for Taketora Ogata, successor to the fallen Shigeru Yoshida as head of the conservative Liberal Party; 14% for Mosaburo Suzuki of the left-wing (Bevanite) Socialists; 12.5% for Jotaro Kawakami of the moderate, right-wing Socialists. In all, more than 56% of the voters expected that Hatoyama would...
First line wing Lyle Guttu did convert McVey's rebound at 10:25 of the second period to put the Crimson within one goal of a tie. Inability to capitalize on several manpower advantages also hurt the freshmen, but McVey finally tied the score after Cleary had swept the defense and passed out from behind the cage. Copeland's winning tally came on a pass from Cleary and set off a wild demonstration by the Yardlings...
...team is built around two Canadians, one a forward and the other a defenseman. Crimson coach John White plans to start Dick Hubbell in the goal behind defensemen John Copeland and John Stimpson. Stimpson will be playing its first Yardling game at the blue line, after switching from wing on the third...
...moderately successful writer of mystery stories (under the pseudonym Edgar Sanday), and a backer of the late EDC. His elevation to Foreign Minister is plainly part of Mendès' effort to stave off his threatening tumble from power by a gesture to the country's "European" wing. But agile as Mendès-France is, his enemies are still confident that they will shortly bring him down...