Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy's Chamber of Deputies, cries of crook, assassin and Fascist come so often from the Communist benches that they no longer get a rise. Last week the tables were reversed, and the result was an uproar. A right-wing Christian Democrat named Giuseppe Togni, who has always supported the government, took the floor and said: "This government has not conducted a sufficiently energetic anti-Communist policy. Italy is not trusted abroad. It is considered defiled by Communism...
...Wealthy tightwads!" cried a leading daily, but Castillo Armas patiently took the plan under study. Then he learned that the "tightwads" were shelling out freely to help elect right-wing anti-Castillo Armas candidates to the new Constituent Assembly (TIME, Oct. 25). That did it. The President raised his estimate of needs to $6,200,000, adding allotments for workers' housing, new roads, and repairs for recent hurricane damage, then uncorked his capital levy. A one-shot tax,* it requires payments equal to 3% of property assessed at more than $5,000, 1% of business capital over...
...driveway and a gardener's cottage were built. "Our driveway curving gracefully upward had cost $10,000 to build," she recalls, "and the gardener's cottage was so small that when we realized we would have to live there ourselves we were obliged to add a wing larger than the original structure. We had a tail that wagged...
...Childlike World." Though left-wing critics said that Vogue reflected a "trivial, childlike world that was gone forever," Editor Chase confidently started up the French edition again at war's end, soon had the British and U.S. editions more prosperous than ever. Editor Chase was well aware that Vogue's prewar world had changed. "When Vogue was born into the smart world, there was only one language -French," says she. "Today our fashion markets spread from Seventh Avenue to California, and there are manufacturers in Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Dallas." Summing up 49 years in the editor...
...junior varsity football team, again bolstered by several varsity alternates, will meet Tufts today at 4 p.m. on Soldiers Field. The Crimson will feature both the single wing and T-formations...