Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most striking change in India was not in the leader but in the led. Outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi, members of a right-wing Hindu party demonstrated against the "atrocities" in Tibet. In Parliament, cries of "Shame! Shame!" greeted the Indian Communist Party when it offered its congratulations to Peking for "leading the people of Tibet to prosperity and equality." "Why," asked the Indian Express of Nehru, "this strange tenderness for Communist feelings as contrasted with the disregard for the sensitivities of the democracies?" Said the Hindustan Times: "Let us hold our heads low. A small country...
...power elements that Stroessner had to size up in making his decision were the various factions of his Colorado Party and his army. The Colorados were divided in two. The minority Presidencialistas urged continuing dictatorship; the majority Civilistas, who include nearly all Congressmen and most of the younger wing of the party, proposed liberalizing...
Captain Hal Churchill scored two of the three point tries, while wing forward Ted Frembgen and hooker Albie Cullen accounted for the others. The score would doubtless have been higher had the makeshift field been equipped with goal posts to allow for the normal after-try conversions...
Despite intermittent rain, the playing field was in surprisingly fine condition, though poorly marked off and too narrow for the Crimson backs to show off their superior speed. Many times a runner, almost in the clear as he sliced around the opponents' wing, would be forced out of bounds into the milling throng of spectators...
Construction of a new library wing for the Divinity School will begin this spring, Douglas Horton, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, announced yesterday. The building will cost over...