Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longstanding equilibrium in Lebanon had been upset by the war, which pitted the left-wing Muslim groups and the well-armed Palestinians against Lebanese Christians and moderate Muslims. The Israelis were alarmed at the prospect of a leftist victory; so were the Syrians, who were apprehensive over the idea of a war pitting Arab against Arab on their border...
...Israelis refused to become directly involved, fearing that it could lead to another all-out Middle East war. But they began to aid the Christians as well as various conservative Muslim groups that were fighting the left-wing parties and the Palestinians. Publicly, Jerusalem made a big show of the food and medical aid-and even jobs-it began offering Christians from south Lebanon. "This became the 'shop window' of our aid to the Christians," a former Israeli Cabinet minister told Halevy. "But our main interest was the Beirut-Jounieh area and the mountains of Lebanon-the Christian...
South America's right-wing military regimes...
...over the Wisconsin city of Oshkosh darkened last week as swarms of flying machines-biplanes and Breezies, power gliders and Gyrocopters, delta wings and Aerodusters-cavorted and capered in the air like drunken dragonflies. The occasion: the 25th annual convention of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA), held at Wittman Field, where 430 homemade aircraft of every description registered for the festivities. Some, like Paul Sunday's 90%-completed Varieze, were trailered to Wisconsin. Others came in on a wing and a prayer. Michael Murphy, a TWA mechanic who built his sky-cycle from a photograph of a 1912 wood...
...wonderful feeling to build something and fly it yourself," says Turner, who wore a hot-pink jumpsuit to match her plane. The upper left wing of her next plane is already in her living-room workshop, and her twelve-year-old son vows to build his own before he turns 16. Says the Pink Baroness: "The orange shag carpet is full of sawdust. Building planes is a good excuse for not cleaning house...