Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most middle-of-the-roaders, McKay irritated extremists on both political sidewalks. The left-wing Americans for Democratic Action condemned the new program as "an ill-concealed giveaway of resources which belong to all the people," and the Fair Dealing New York Post saw "special interests . . . winning the battle of the Potomac." Columnist David Lawrence, an arch-Republican, complained that "the statement reaffirms more of the New Deal than the Old Deal...
...prepared to land. Suddenly the pilot noticed that the plane's hydraulic system was out of order, and that one of the landing wheels was stuck in its casing. King pried open the trap door in the floor of his cockpit, wriggled into the narrow passage in the wing of his aircraft and tried to lower the wheel by hand. For 90 minutes he wrestled in the darkness of the wing while his copilot circled Seoul, burning up surplus fuel that might roast them alive if they crashed. But the wheel could not be lowered...
...labors of the vigilantes" and believes that "the matter is beyond the competence or interest of a congressional investigation committee." But "while we deal with these issues among ourselves," he feels it should be admitted that there has been "a very considerable Marxist dogmatism in the 'liberal' wing of the Protestant churches." Niebuhr says that he and others used some Marxist doctrines as weapons against the smug, optimistic, individualistic form of Christianity the U.S. had inherited from the 19th century, and against certain economic injustices that happened under capitalism. But, he now acknowledges, 'those...
...Time. But it was not all Georgy the candy-bringer. At last, he now could promise that light industry and the food industry could be developed at the same rate as heavy industry, but the party had been unswervingly right "in the struggle against the Trotskyites and the right-wing capitulators and traitors" who had fought the heavy industry program before. That, he said, would have meant "the doom of our revolution." He rattled off impressive-sounding (for Russia) production figures...
...exchange of ambassadors between modern nations is usually as prescribed as a minuet. Last week, after it had gone through the diplomatic formalities of clearing a new ambassador with the Argentine government, the U.S. State Department pulled a switch as startling as a fast buck & wing. It announced that Ambassador Albert F. Nufer would remain in Argentina. Ambassador Willard Beaulac, scheduled to move to Argentina from Cuba, will go to Chile instead...