Word: wing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ware is a fast left wing whose back checking gives the line defensive viability. Macadamia is a sophomore strickhandler, from Belong Hill on the order of pension Kent Parrot...
...little else but saving the pound. Now, along with devaluation's bitter, month-long aftertaste, a paroxysm of family infighting has broken out, presenting Prime Minister Harold Wilson with the first serious threat to his leadership in his three-year term in office. Labor's left wing is just spoiling for a squabble over proposals for sharp new spending cuts, expected next month. So defiant and independent have some of Labor's ministers grown, said the Sunday Telegraph, that what Britain now has is Cabinet rather than prime ministerial government...
Britain's economic plight and its failure to make any headway with the Common Market constituted such a mess, said maverick right-wing Tory Duncan Sandys, that the country needed "a coalition of ideas" of both parties-an oblique appeal for a national government, as in World War II. The idea got few takers. Despite the hard knocks he has received lately, Harold Wilson is not yet ready to admit defeat. As for the Tories, they are not that eager to help bail Wilson out of the mess...
...grown along with the war. Only two years ago, a modest 500 men a month were flown out to Hong Kong and Bangkok for brief vaca tions. This month, some 30,000 will wing off from the chill monsoon rains of the DMZ or the muddy Del ta for a five-day fling to a list of cities that now includes Honolulu, Tokyo, Taipei, Singapore, Manila, Penang, Kuala Lumpur and, most recently, Sydney.-It is probably something only the world's richest country could afford. To provide it, the Government pays Pan Am $23,500,000 a year...
...company an $86 million development contract for an aircraft to ride shotgun for the vulnerable troop-carrying helicopters in Viet Nam. Last week at Van Nuys Airport, Calif., Lockheed put its answer in the air: a prototype of the radical AH-56A Cheyenne-a combination helicopter and fixed-wing plane-gave a 15-minute display of its capabilities for members of the military, Government and the press...