Word: winger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many to finish on top, the Canadiens were plagued by injuries to goalie Jacques Plante, defensemen Tom Johnson and Lou Fontinato (who is in hospital with a broken neck), and forwards Bernard "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Dickie Moore, and Gilles Tremblay. Rookie defenseman Terry Harper and newly acquired left-winger Bill McCreary will prove valuable to the club in the coming Stanley Cup playoffs...
...meaningful political battles. It was an uncompromising clash, without any me-too touches to blur the issues: Morton, a former G.O.P. National Chairman, a hard-punching conservative; Wyatt, a founder of Americans for Democratic Action, one of the last of those who might be described as an unmistakable left-winger. The New Frontier made Morton's defeat a principal campaign objective. President Kennedy twice went into Kentucky to campaign for Wyatt. The Administration suffered a second jolt in Kentucky when Democratic Congressman Frank Burke, who had voted down the line for the New Frontier, lost his seat to Goldwater...
Arizona. Carl Hayden, oldest member of the Senate in both age (85) and tenure (since 1927), seems sure to win over State Senator Evan Mecham, a right-winger backed by the John Birch Society. Most doubts dissolved last month when two conservative Phoenix newspapers strongly endorsed Hayden...
Devil confounded the conspirators by dying in bed. He was succeeded as Imam by Crown Prince Seif el Islam el Badr, 36, a scholarly left-winger who promised to modernize Yemen so that it could "catch up with the caravan of world progress." One of his first and most fatal acts was to appoint intriguing Colonel Sallal as commander of the palace guard...
...capital" at Tlemcen, Ben Bella also seemed to be losing ground to Colonel Houari Boumedienne, whose dismissal as F.L.N. army chief of staff last month precipitated the row with Benkhedda. It was Boumedienne, a pale, brown-haired former schoolteacher and pronounced left-winger, who last week angrily turned down the Orleansville proposal while Ben Bella was still studying it. Belkacem Krim and Mohammed Boudiaf had been named for the politburo, but Boumedienne denounced them both as "usurpers" and accused them of having "collaborated" with France in the days before Algerian independence...