Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shigeru Yoshida, a tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) man who wears antique wing collars, has also managed to irritate and inflame almost every Japanese who counts. He flourishes his urbanity. He delivers choicely worded insults with jolly grins, and autocratic taps of his cane. He visits the zoo, where he has likened penguins and monkeys to Japanese leaders and called out well-known names at them in his high-pitched squeak. In the Japanese Diet, Premier Yoshida will often drowse through the opposition speeches, sometimes bestirring himself to deal with questions: "I will not answer that...
...once led the party, had to turn it over to Yoshida when purged as "undesirable" by Douglas MacArthur, and never got the leadership back. Hostilities deepened when Mamoru Shigemitsu, 65, a crippled ex-war criminal who signed the surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, withdrew the support of his right-wing Progressive Party from Yoshida, leaving Yoshida with only 183 votes in the Lower House of the Diet. The two dissident forces combined to form a big, new, conservative "Japan Democratic Party," with 124 seats and heavy business support. Many Socialists would probably vote with the Democrats. Almost overnight Yoshida...
...Wing Commander Gamal Salem, Nasser's Deputy Premier, one of three extraordinary judges, acted as unofficial prosecutor, derisively leading the Brothers on, then snapping the trap on each. He got scrawny Deputy Supreme Guide Khamis Hemeida to admit that the Brotherhood bosses secretly negotiated with the British over the Canal Zone, then turned to the spectators and snorted: "Look at him. This is what wanted to be Premier...
...casual observer, the roaring bedlam in Ohio Stadium a fortnight ago was just another football game. To the Hearst papers' Bill Corum, it was a sociological phenomenon. Columnist Corum easily saw through the trickery of the T, the brute power of the single wing, and discovered the real difference between Michigan and Ohio State. Buckeye superiority, he decided, rested on an institution a good deal older than football: marriage...
...also have a parakeet," added Joan, "named Crazy Crawford." But parakeets (like Peter Lorre's pet sea gull that recently suffered a broken wing) have their own special emotional problems...