Word: winging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adieu, Maurice." Moscow, for instance, is known to be worried about certain tendencies in the French party. Maurice Thorez, the official leader, did not go to Miszlakowice. He leads the wing of the party which has stressed independence of Moscow, wants collaboration-temporarily-with democratic parties and wants to hang on to those 5,500,000 Communist votes...
...disturbed by a shortage of experienced forwards. "We have a strong backfield," she reports. "My tentative solution is to convert a few of the fast halfbacks to wing positions...
...defense for most of the game, Poley Guyda's Freshman soccer team kept its slate clean by eking out a 1 to 1 tie with Medford High School yesterday on the Business School Field. The Yardlings scored first in 8:45 of the second period on a boot by wing Sherry Houston, but Medford evened the score early in the fourth frame when Leo Livoti sunk one from a scramble in front of the goal...
Furse was the key of the attack on all fronts. He called his plays like a machine, rolling them out in an endless variety based on a few simple propositions. With himself as the continuous passing threat, Furse could hurl to a flanker, flip a Harmon lateral to the wing or tallback, hand off to Nadherny, or--and this is his most devasting weapon--leap in the air after a count of one or two or three and explode the ball over the center of the line...
Even vital experimental orders had been nipped by lack of cash. Northrop Aircraft wheeled out one experimental ship this week, a jet-propelled Flying Wing. But President Jack Northrop said that the Air Force had had to shelve a 600-m.p.h. 4,000-mile-range guided missile which could have been developed in three years, and substitute one that would go 1,400 m.p.h. but would probably take six to ten years to develop...