Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most bruising internal struggles in the 79-year history of the British Labor Party. At a mauling annual conference in Brighton last week, a successful left-wing challenge wrested effective control of the party from moderate Leader James Callaghan. It pointed toward a radical policy shift that could shake up British politics for years to come. It catapulted leftist Chieftain Tony Benn into a front-running position as heir apparent to the party leadership...
...right was battered at the rostrum in three days of bitter and derisive debate. At the outset, Party Chairman Frank Allaun, a left-wing M.P., blamed Callaghan and the Cabinet directly for losing the election. Defeated M.P. Tom Litterick, from Birmingham, angrily hurled a sheaf of papers on the conference floor and shouted, "This is what Jim did with our policies-aye, he fixed all of us! He fixed me in particular." A stream of leftist speakers complained that Callaghan's party had traded socialist doctrine for "watered-down Toryism...
...usually direct at opponents of South Africa's ruling National Party and its harsh policy of apartheid. This time, however, the target was none other than Stephanus ("Fanie") Botha, Labor Minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister P.W. Botha. To the horror of the Nationals' conservative verkrampte wing, Botha has proposed the progressive dismantling of "petty apartheid," the complex web of racial laws and regulations that has governed virtually every aspect of South African life since the Afrikaners gained political control...
Travelling 400 miles to kiss your sister was a bad enough prospect, but for Harvard there wasn't even a hug. It was the all-too-familiar story of the Crimson outplaying its opponent but still getting beaten. As wing Mauro Keller-Sarmiento said after the game, "This can't keep happening...
...women's squad handily disposed of Pine Manor yesterday, 6-0, led by the three-goal effort of freshman left wing Francesca Denhartog. Captain Charlotte Worsley tallied a goal and an assist, and left inside Tory Abbott also added a goal. Sophmore right wing Laura DiBonaventura rounded out the scoring with a goal and two assists...