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Word: winging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kirkland expects to run from a single wing, and is now working on its ground attack for its opener with an eager Winthrop squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Gridders Begin Drills | 10/6/1949 | See Source »

...Puritans are also working on their ground attack, and expect to modify their standard single-wing if they find their weaker-than-average line cannot stand up against bigger and burlier teams like Adams and Lowell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Gridders Begin Drills | 10/6/1949 | See Source »

...done at the last seven U.E. conventions, the C.I.O.'s slim little Secretary-Treasurer James B. Carey moved into the convention hall with a slate of right-wing candidates and a do-or-die campaign to unseat the Reds and bring U.E. back into the C.I.O. parlor. But, although he had collected the biggest bloc of votes since the Communists bounced him out of the U.E. presidency eight years ago, Jim Carey's words were still louder than his deeds. With mounting rage he stormed against the well-laid plans of the left-winger's President Albert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Grounds for Divorce | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...days later, by a robust 438-to-109 vote, Curran pushed through a substitute -a resolution calling on all N.M.U. members to "take every step to root [Communists] out of our union completely." Then the delegates upheld the expulsion of five of the N.M.U.'s noisiest left-wing troublemakers. Among them: ex-Vice President Joe Stack and onetime National Secretary Ferdinand Smith, whom the U.S. is trying to deport as an alien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: All Communists Ashore | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

After Schumacher's speech, extreme right-wing delegates shouted demands that Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland be returned to Germany, called for a new Anschluss with Austria. Other delegates whistled, shouted "Pfui...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Freedom Rings | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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