Word: wing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aiming for nothing less than the abolition of capitalist society, they had no reasonable secondary goal to fall back to. Instead, at sit-ins in the historic Odeon Theater and the Sorbonne amphitheater, they prattled endlessly about how rotten the world is. Some professors and left-wing intellectuals joined in the discussion. Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre dropped by the Sorbonne. To Danny the Red, Sartre said: "Something has come forth from you that is astonishing and overwhelming. It denies everything that our society, as it is today, has done. It is what I will call the extension of the limits...
Those voters who did mark their ballots returned to power Premier Aldo Moro's five-year-old Center-Left coalition with an increased majority of 51 in the 630-seat Chamber of Deputies. The Christian Democrats gained six new seats from extreme right-wing parties, and the Republicans, the smallest partner in the ruling coalition, went from five seats to nine...
...South Viet Nam's major political factions were missing: both branches of the ultranationalist, right-wing Dai Viet Party, which garnered more than 7% of the vote in last September's presidential elections. Geographical (Southerners v. Northerners) and religious (Buddhists v. Catholics) representation was better balanced than in the Cabinet of his predecessor, Nguyen Van Loc. But Huong, like Loc, assembled a group of technicians rather than politicians, who could have broadened the base of popular support for the government. In fact, he retained six of the old ministers in the 18-man lineup...
...minorities, Don Yarborough, 42, a liberal Houston lawyer* who was twice defeated in the gubernatorial primary by Connally, topped the Democratic ballot. But without a majority, he was forced into a runoff on June 1 with Lieutenant Governor Preston Smith, 56. An archconservative, Smith will probably gain the right-wing votes that were shared with other candidates in the first tally, and thus must now be counted a slight favorite. The runoff will bring the two wings of the Texas Democratic Party into direct confrontation. As a result, the Governor's mansion and all of its powers of patronage...
...plant near the resort town of Bembridge on Britain's Isle of Wight is nothing but a sod runway. The one plane that Britten-Norman builds carries ten people in a fuselage that even its designers admit is "just an aluminum rack." It has a high, slablike wing and a top speed of only 168 m.p.h. Yet low and slow as it flies, the Britten-Norman (BN-2) Islander, as it is called, has proved to be a soaring success...