Word: winging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...street below the conference room, some 600 anti-Communist students demonstrated with banners denouncing the Moscow Conference suggestion of an Allied trusteeship (maximum five years). Then the Korean police stepped in, impartially raided both the headquarters of the left-wing "Youth's Preparatory Army" (estimated strength 3,000) and of the right-wing "Army" (estimated strength...
...tactics more closely. In the Constituent Assembly the Communist-Socialist coalition was maneuvering to give the Fourth Republic a constitution that would make an all-powerful legislature and a weak executive. De Gaulle had insisted that France needed a stronger administration on the U.S. constitutional model. The same left-wing coalition again insisted that military appropriations be cut 20% in favor of reconstruction funds. De Gaulle had argued that France, in a "tense" world, needed more armed strength...
Fifth Air Force technicians who found the A26 (one of the only two built) on an airdrome near Tokyo are inclined to believe the claim. Notable feature: fuel tanks cover 75% of the A-26's wing span, carry nine tons (3,219 gallons) of gasoline, accounting for some 54% of the plane's gross weight...
...week's end a long, black hired limousine rolled up the driveway to the East Wing of the White House. Out stepped stocky, red-faced Benjamin Fairless, president of the United States Steel Corp...
Boss's Boss? Murray's critics consider him a captive boss, the prisoner of men and forces he cannot control. To them, the real C.I.O. boss is General Counsel Lee Pressman, lawyer, shrewd publicist, a smooth man with strong left-wing tendencies. But Phil Murray's friends, paraphrasing Voltaire, say: "If there weren't a Phil Murray it would have been necessary to invent...