Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year a third candidate entered the race and took some anti-Taylor votes away from Glen's chief opponent, Claude Burtenshaw, a Mormon professor from Ricks College. Last week the primary was held, and Taylor won by about 2,500 votes. Said Burtenshaw: "It looks like the left wing has taken over the party...
...Jersey's right-wing Republicans have been trying to commit fratricide against Clifford Case, the G.O.P. senatorial candidate, ever since Case denounced Joe McCarthy (TIME, July 19). Soon after that, 10,000 circulars titled "The Case Against Case" went out across the state. The circulars attacked the ex-Congressman as the candidate of the C.I.O. and the A.D.A. and an enemy of the late Bob Taft. The tide got so strong that last week Chief Republican Dwight Eisenhower came to Case...
...accused Kefauver of befriending left-wing Northerners, supporting the Supreme Court segregation decision, and, worst of all, being an "internationalist." Unlike his 1948 coonskin-cap barnstorm ing, Kefauver's campaign was dignified; he soft-pedaled his internationalist and gang-busting lines, stressing what he had done for Tennessee. By campaign's end there was evidence that Pat Sutton had talked too much. During one talkathon, he had labeled a friend of Kefauver as a "known Communist." Later he apologized, but that did not stop Kefauver's friend from hitting him with a $1,500,000 slander suit...
Like the rest of the industry, Cessna had to cut back after V-J day, but it was soon able to step into a new market of flying executives and Sunday pilots. In short order President Wallace put out three models of a high-wing, single-engined Cessna monoplane that could fly at 120-140 m.p.h., watched sales climb back to $14 million in 1948. When Korea hit, Cessna's civilian planes became L19 artillery spotters. Observers used L-19s to spot camouflaged tanks hidden from 600-m.p.h. jets. Signal Corpsmen slung rolls of wire beside the wings, hedgehopped...
...Wing Leader. The peacetime R.A.F. would not have Bader without legs, but when war began, not even the King's Regulations could hold him back. He got back into the R.A.F. as a fighter pilot, eventually led five squadrons of more than 60 planes, and became "the R.A.F.'s first wing leader." He was a swashbuckling, pugnacious, fearless flyer who would fly ten sweeps in seven days, then stomp about on the ground, hungering to get into the air again. He was one of the few to whom so many owed so much through the Battle of Britain...