Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Panic & Delay. Long lines-some said the longest in memory-formed outside Commons hours before Sir Winston strode in, to answer a Laborite motion labeling the thermonuclear bomb a "grave threat to civilization" and seeking a Big Three meeting. Sensational left-wing papers fed the public outcry with near-hysterical headlines. Trying to stave off the panic, Churchill at first nourished it last week by admitting: "We have not got [the facts]." But then he contradicted himself ("I am in almost hourly correspondence with the Government of the U.S."), and solicited from Washington a stream of confidential cables providing...
...utterly opposed to handing over the army of Napoleon and Foch to the dubious control of a hybrid international command. "I have always thought what I think now," he said. Like the Gaullists, Juin professed to favor German rearmament in some other form. But, like most other right-wing opponents of EDC, he left unexplained how a France which fears to rearm Germany with EDC restrictions would be persuaded to let Germany rearm without such restrictions...
Outside, in the streets of Paris, the affair did not end so smoothly. At week's end, bands of right-wing students, veterans, followers of General de Gaulle and monarchists began parading and shouting, "Vive Juin!" Laniel and Pleven went to a ceremony at the Arc de Triomphe for the fallen soldiers of Dienbienphu...
Larry Boise was outstanding for the varsity at left wing, scoring twice on 50-yard runs against the Combined Services team. Also scoring from the scrum were Bob Richter, John Nichols, and Joe Conzelman. Woodie Simpson connected on only one out of five conversions...
NORTHROP Aircraft, Inc., which had wing troubles that grounded early models of its F-89D Scorpion interceptor, has eliminated the bugs. The Air Force has given Northrop a $155 million contract to produce more of its two-man jets, heaviest-armed (104 rockets) fighters in existence...