Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affairs, and never seemed to provide for her what she was seeking." Jean Tatlock had many friends who were Communists and fellow travelers; Oppenheimer met them, but he said he did not want to give the impression that it was "wholly because of Jean Tatlock that I met left-wing friends." Oppenheimer said he saw little of Jean Tatlock between 1939 and 1944, when she died...
Standing before the Chamber of Deputies last week, Premier Mario Scelba said: "I have the honor to present . . . the law for the European Defense Community." A left-wing voice cried out: "You call that an honor?" and the Communists and Nenni (proCommunist) Socialists set up a chorus of hoots and jeers at Scelba...
...sabotage. But engineers on both sides of the Atlantic more realistically suspected structural defects. U.S. engineers have argued all along that the Comet was put into commercial service prematurely, and questioned details of its design. Chief question: How safe is the British practice of embedding jet engines in the wing roots of multijet aircraft? Embedding improves the streamlining, but for safety's sake, U.S. jet builders prefer to suspend their engines in jet-pods hanging below the wings. Boeing 6-47 jet bombers have been landed safely after losing a disabled jet, but in the Comet's case...
...Belmont, Mass.; Edward L. Keenan of Orchard Park, N. Y.; Rodney W. Long, Jr., Winchester, Mass.; Lewis D. Lowenfels, New York City; Neil K. Muncaster of Winchester, Mass.; William M. Parmley of Salt Lake City, Utah; Dominic Repetto of Rockville Center, N. Y.; LeRoy H. Scharpen of Red Wing, Minn.; William M. Schreiber of Wooster, Ohio; Robert S. Treisman of Concord, N. H.; John P. Scott of Dallas, Texas...
...would perpetuate this accounting, and would prevent the Red-hunters from claiming the whole list of so-called risks as they have often done in the past. It would also show how exaggerated past totals have been. For one of the curious spectacles of recent politics is that right wing Republicans, while they complained that Democratic Washington was filled with security risks, could not state the size of the menace. The Civil Service Commissioner at one time reported 2,486 cases. Later, he back-pedalled to 1,456. His critics, with apparent justification, even accused him of swelling the lists...