Word: winging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sacrificial Altar." The week's sound & fury was touched off by Virginia's portly Governor William Tuck in a loud speech before his General Assembly. The Governor put on his striped trousers and wing collar for the occasion. His double chin quivered as he attacked Harry Truman's civil rights program, (anti-poll tax, antilynching, antidiscrimination, antisegregation) as an "unwarranted assault upon the established customs and traditions of the entire Southland." Too long, he cried, had "the electoral vote of the South been counted . . . even before it was cast. . . . The people of the Southern states have been...
...that Kehoe brought out his ace, a grey-black-&-green veteran of two fights last year. It looked bad for the grey when a rival red rooster drove a spur into a lung. A few minutes later Kehoe's rooster suffered first a broken leg, then a broken wing...
This legend sums up British Publisher-Socialist Victor Gollancz' political jeremiad. After a lifetime of left-wing and fellow-traveling activity, Gollancz has discovered that man's only guide in life is a set of ethics absolutely and unconditionally binding under all conditions. When Christ told His followers to love all men as their brothers, He meant-insists Gollancz-exactly what He said. That creed, says Gollancz, may be accepted or rejected but should not be reduced to the petty levels of convenient compromise...
...Hall of Congress to see Gallegos take over. From his predecessor, Rómulo Betancourt (who had held office as provisional President since the revolution of 1945), Gallegos received the yellow, blue and red presidential sash, took the oath of office. Then the party moved over to the north wing...
Actually, most of these backs, and particularly Chip Gannon, are mere familiar with the single-wing than with...