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Word: wing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rated as the "power" line, big and strong and hard skating. Woman did not start in the Yale game, and is a question mark tonight because of an injured nerve in his arm. Forced out of his goalie job by that injury and a broken jaw, the gutsy left wing is Dartmouth's third high scorer...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Crimson Sextet to Meet Dartmouth In Showdown for Ivy League Title | 2/25/1959 | See Source »

...those place names around the world which come to mean not a landscape but a problem, few seemed more bound up in hatreds and hopeless intricacies than Cyprus. But after four years of bombings, murders and repression, after 508 deaths and the near collapse of NATO's Eastern wing, the bloody dispute over the British colony of Cyprus last week suddenly moved toward solution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Something Like a Miracle | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...Ceylon, the British decided to set up new bases farther south on the placid island of Gan in the Maldives, a splatter of palm-fringed dots in the Indian Ocean 400 miles from Ceylon. There are only 93,000 Maldivians-nut-brown, peaceable folk who have been under the wing of the British Empire since 1802. The world has largely passed the Maldives by. But six years ago, after 800 years of Sultanate rule, the Maldives became a republic. Their first President abolished purdah, designed a Mother Hubbard national costume for Maldivian women, and pushed a road-building program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MALDIVES: Gan Aft Agley | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...about her appearance and dress; very alive to all kinds of interests and liable to question the viewpoints of her instructors. She was very fond of Mrs. Oppenheimer (through whom Mr. Friedman met the Steins), who was a very motherly woman and took both Gertrude and Leo under her wing, had them at her house quite a little, and fed them more lavishly than the way in which they were living in Cambridge at the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GERTRUDE STEIN | 2/20/1959 | See Source »

...also helps its position style of hockey. Smaller and colder than the Eagles' McHugh Forum, it will reduce the advantage of B.C.'s speedsters, Ron Walsh, Owen Hughes and Tommy Martin. Instead of falling prey to Martin's long sleeper-play passes up the middle to a wing at the offensive blue line, the varsity can tighten things up by playing "position...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Opportunity Knocks For Sextet Tonight with B.C. at Watson | 2/18/1959 | See Source »

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