Word: winging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steelworkers' President Phil Murray was busy at the negotiating table, but C.I.O. President Phil Murray had other troubles on his mind. For months Murray had been threatening stern measures against rebellious unions like the Communist-wired United Electrical Workers. Last week U.E., the C.I.O.'s biggest left-wing union, beat the C.I.O. chief to the punch. At its stormy 14th annual convention in Cleveland, the U.E.'s leadership made all but the final motions of breaking off from C.I.O. and forming a third association of U.S. labor unions, which would be Communist-controlled...
...Munro is improvising with Jon Spivak, an outside right last year, as center forward and freshman Ben Goldstein and John Harvey, who are fighting for wing positions. Munro will have to come up with a good line, for word from Medford is that Tufts' offense may be considerably above last year, when the varsity...
Andrei Gromyko, the sharpest dresser of them all according to T & C, "commits the sartorial crime of tying his evening bow behind the points of his wing collar. He also affects the American habit of pressing a crease in his sleeve." Ex-Ambassador Maisky "makes the mistake of fastening his bottom waistcoat button" -a mistake, admits T & C, that might be accounted for by the class-conscious fact that "the leave-it-undone style was created by royalty...
From now on, each fraternity would have its own wing in one of the new buildings, a separate entrance and a private dining hall. But it would now be squarely under the eyes and thumbs of the university. Moaned one stalwart Greek-letter man: "The moat is just a grave-Wriston dug it for the frats...
Last week the Navy announced that its gunners would soon have a target worthy of their fire: the Martin KDM-1, a pilotless plane powered with a ramjet engine, designed to fly close to the speed of sound. The little drone is carried into the air under the wing of a larger airplane and flown fast enough to start its ramjet. Then it is released and flies thenceforth under remote control, while the Navy gunners try to shoot it down. When its fuel is gone, the drone zooms high in the air. A parachute opens and it floats down...