Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...highly vocal host of enemies. But their cries of protest have never been so effective as the rising chorus of last week. The reason was clear. A new force had joined in the battle against McCarthy. It included many respected, conservative Republicans whom McCarthy could not call "extreme left-wing bleeding hearts." What they said had real effect with millions of U.S. citizens who had been inclined to overlook McCarthy's tactics because he was opposing Communism...
...before a court of inquiry at Arlington, Va. last week, the ribbons on his tunic bore testimony to an honorable career as a regular-as a pilot in Nicaragua, as combat commander of a nightfighter squadron in World War II, as chief of staff of the First Marine Aircraft Wing during the Korean war. But all this simply complicated the dreadful dilemma of the high-ranking officers who sat in judgment...
Sunday's ratio was about the same, and the reporting no more accurate. In summing up the files McCarthy released, the Tribune said, ". . . some members of McCarthy's staff believed Schine would never have been drafted into the army except that 'extreme left wing writers' started 'screaming about his case'." The file cited said nothing of the draft, but deplored Schine's status quo as a private...
...things until the elections-or until someone else decides to move in for himself-the mixture of soldiers, nationalists, socialists and others who joined in ousting Shishekly picked as new Premier stout, bespectacled Sabri el Assali, a right-wing Damascus lawyer. Around him was assembled a Cabinet notable mostly for its lack of political notables. One exception: Defense Minister Marouf Dawalibi, who was Premier when Shishekly assumed power two years...
BABY gas turbine, the size of an auto engine but six to eight times as powerful, is being developed by General Electric for the Navy. The small engine will be used primarily to power helicopters, but can also be converted into a turbojet or turboprop for light, fixed-wing aircraft...