Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...choose a candidate to run for Eisenhower Republican Ed Thye's Senate seat. The contenders: St. Paul's Eugene McCarthy, 42, onetime St. John's University economics and education professor and five-term Congressman with one of the most liberal voting records in the House; Red Wing's Mrs. Eugenie Anderson, 49, Harry Truman's Ambassador to Denmark, who had campaigned hard through the state by 1953 Oldsmobile to overtake Gene McCarthy's early lead...
...American whooping crane, order Gruiformes, or simply Grus americana. Like other cranes, the whooping crane prefers life in a marsh, where it can munch away merrily on snails, insects, shoots, and seeds. The whooping crane is distinct from other cranes in that it has a longer neck, a wing span of up to seven feet, and only twenty-nine living examples...
...victory of Algiers" Massu became a hero to the 1,000,000 European settlers in Algeria, and his paratroopers -and their alumni, in veterans organizations in both France and Algeria -became a rallying point for the right wing in France. Veterans proudly wore the distinctive berets of their old regiments -red for the Colonials recruited overseas, blue for paratroopers of Metropolitan France, green for Foreign Legionnaires...
...Coaches Association. Over the years high school games have been the biggest killers, October the worst month, and the first five minutes of a game the most dangerous. Tackling has been more dangerous than ball carrying or blocking, and the T formation has been more deadly than the single wing...
...with the United States Army Graves Registration), can prove that Dujardin is. in fact, no martyr but a traitor. This should make Stone a hero in his own right, but, as Humes tells it, he is caught between the upper millstone of a postwar U.S. right wing and the nether millstone of French Stalinism...