Word: winging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waiting for the Senate's weekend recess, newsmen heard a crackling noise from the main corridor of the Senate wing. The old English Minton floor tiles, laid in the 1850s and now irreplaceable, had begun to heave upward. They buckled into a ridge 20 feet long. Capitol architects guessed the cause was a sudden change of temperature. Reporters happily accepted the theory that someone had opened a door from the Senate chamber and let out a blast...
...Sixteen board members of the left-wing Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee were convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over their books to the committee. Among the reluctant board members: Chairman Edward K. Barsky, a doctor with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War; Communist-line Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast; Theatrical Producer Herman (The Searching Wind) Shumlin...
...wrestled, India and Indian politics changed along the road. The Indian National Congress, which claimed to represent Indians of every religious community, finally had to admit that Mohamed Ali Jinnah spoke for the Moslems. Left-wing groups left the Congress, Communists led by Puran Chandra Joshi threatened the placid order of the agricultural, home-industrial India which Gandhi strove for. The Congress leadership (since 1941 Gandhi has ruled only from the sidelines) passed more & more to a group of well-to-do conservatives bossed by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel...
That thin sliver of extra speed cost enormous effort. The P-80R, though designed as a practical military airplane rather than a souped-up racing job, is a refinement of Lockheed's P-80 (Shooting Star). It has a thinner, broader wing, a smaller canopy than the original model. Its Allison 400 turbojet engine develops a take-off thrust of 4,600 Ibs. Half of this tremendous power is soaked up in attaining the last 70 m.p.h...
...Manhattan's ramshackle Bible House, which shelters the New Masses and a raft of other left-wing and labor groups, there was a new stir of activity. Partisan Review, bimonthly magazine of the literary Left, had found an angel. So it was about to go monthly, and pay its editors a salary for the first time...