Word: wing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...system allows a measure of plasticity every four years. The Republicans are making the most of this chance. The painful ruptures of the past have been treated and very nearly healed?almost in a spirit of harmony or bust. After pulling back from its heartfelt but self-indulgent right-wing position of 1964, the 1968 party once more stands in the middle of its ideo logical spectrum...
...days and look eagerly to the year 2000, and to make the mix sound coherent, points up his talent for accommodation, which is one explanation for Nixon's return from political limbo. The G.O.P.'s liberals can live with him. He picked up much support from the Goldwater wing (and won the blessing of Barry), not because he belonged to the party's right wing, but because he was acceptable to it. Many of the stauncher conservatives preferred Reagan, but they realized that the California governor was not a viable national candidate. Tom Stagg Jr., national committeeman from Louisiana, acknowledged...
...first messages from Brazzaville, capital of the Congo Republic, reported that paratroops led by a Maoist officer had overthrown left-wing President Alphonse Massamba-Debat, forcing him to flee to his native village. Hardly 20 hours later, the 47-year-old President was once more in office, called back by the army that had ousted him. Moreover, what originally looked like a left-wing grab for power turned out to be a putsch from the right...
...Left-wing Threat. Earlier this year, however, Massamba-Debat began to have second thoughts. The extreme left of his movement was threatening his own position. An economic squeeze forced him to look for foreign aid from the West. So, shifting to the right, the President sacked leading left-wing officials, partially disarmed the Jeunesse, and started sending home the Cubans. The government built sentry boxes in front of foreign embassies, ostensibly to keep the Congolese from contacting foreigners but in reality to isolate the large Chinese Embassy staff. Massamba-Debat also re-established relations with Great Britain, which were broken...
...schoolchildren should be permitted to read arouses as much rancor and righteousness as ever. Some prudes are shocked that students should be exposed to the earthy bawdiness of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Negroes protest the "Uncle Tomism" of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn; reactionaries worry about left-wing interpretations in history texts. According to a recent survey by the National Education Association, 334 books on class reading lists or in school libraries were singled out for criticism last year. Surprisingly, many of the books were condemned by teachers themselves...