Word: winging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appropriations for a contiuance of the European Recovery Program are much safer under Democratic control than under Republican. Although Dewey, Vandenberg, and other leaders have supported this program effectively, the isolationist wing of the Republican party is still strong and would probably have made its influence felt...
...jigsaw of Russian intentions for Eastern Germany was fitting together. At first there had been only isolated clues-the wing of a prison converted into barracks at Dessau, an order for 5,000 shoulder insignia of the old German style, the sight of men marching and drilling on a onetime Wehrmacht training field near Rostock. Then the evidence came faster. The Russians were busily organizing a military "police" force of a quarter of a million Germans, almost twice as large as the entire force of pre-Hitler Germany...
...Institute's director, Oppie still intends to find time to teach and learn. His predecessor's Oxford prints are gone from the director's office; in their place is a wall-length blackboard, covered with equations. And three afternoons a week, out in the new wing, Oppie and 15 young friends can be found talking over elementary-particle physics, explaining things to each other...
...decline of conservative power does not date from November 2, 1948. Republican moderates defeated the right wing in the GOP summer convention, most notably when Charles Halleck was rejected as the Vice-Presidential nominee. And although the Senate was in grave danger-according to pre-Tuesday views--Governor Dewey refused to support reactionary Senator Chapman Revercomb in the West Virginia race...
Defensively, the outlook yesterday wasn't bright. In a 30-minute scrimmage against the Varsity, Bon McCabe's Jayvees, equipped with Princeton's single-wing, pushed for considerable yardage. And although their white jerseys were numbered the same as Princeton's, the Jayvees hardly operated with the finesse the Tigers will show Saturday...