Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Italy's Communists and fellow travelers were determined to make difficulties for her. Two left-wing Senators charged that the Ambassador's activities "constitute foreign interference in the domestic affairs of Italy," and trumpeted for an investigation. The official Communist L'Unità joined in. accused the Ambassador of "espionage." called her "an old lady who needs rest to calm her nerves." The Red Socialist Avanti chimed in with its own blast: the U.S. Ambassador is in reality "Senator Joe McCarthy's Rome agent in charge of witch hunting." What the hue & cry is about...
CONVERTIPLANE, a cross between a helicopter and a fixed-wing plane, is taking shape at Bell Aircraft's Fort Worth plant under a joint Army-Air Force contract. The new aircraft will have propellers that tilt horizontally to lift it straight up like a helicopter, then tilt forward to pull the plane ahead at 150 m.p.h...
...highlight the plight of modern-day humor, the title piece focuses on a psychiatrist and his neurotic patient who stymie each other with the question, "What do you want?" The doctor finally admits that what he really wants is a new wing for his house in the suburbs. Going home, the patient glimpses the tremor of a leaf in the afternoon sun and sets his heart on something at once simpler and more complicated: "I want the second tree from the corner just as it stands." Several of White's other tales roll along this same rim of near...
Sobo is noted as a strict tactician, and a keen student of gridiron techniques--both in offense and defuse. He did not reveal what offense he would use at Penn, but it is expected that he will continue the pattern set by Munger, a single wing, with a few mixtures...
...kitchen piled high with dirty dishes (labeled "consumer-goods demand"), with squalling children armed with hammers ("satellite unrest," "collectivized farming") climbing into his lap. In a Republican Administration, Liberal Republican Dowling's main target is the "division of the Republican Party between the liberals and the McCarthy right wing...