Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some students contacted were less upset. "I'm not worried," A. Wing Sommers '80 said yesterday. "We just bought ten cases of Tab," he said...
...efforts to broaden political participation, now generally looks the other way when it comes to the Communists' political activities. The government even permitted the party chiefs to hold a two-hour press conference. It also provided heavy security for the visitors. Carrillo himself, undoubtedly mindful of the right-wing assassination of five Communist labor lawyers six weeks ago, escorted his guests from the airport to their hotel in a bulletproof 1948 Cadillac, a gift from Rumanian President Nicolae Ceausescu...
...Communist youth movement after the war. Now 49, he made contact with younger radicals through Inge Hornischer, a Frankfurt attorney who handled his divorce in 1975. Verfassungsschutz agents, it seemed, regularly tuned in to the telephone of Frau Hornischer, whose radical clientele included Wilfried Böse, a left-wing terrorist killed in the Israeli raid at Entebbe last July...
...prove valuable to students because of space constraints. Although the number of donations to the museum varies each year, with as much as 100 pieces of artwork given in some years, the overcrowding stays constant. Although these space inadequacies have spurred a drive to raise money for a new wing, the museum has raised only $3 million toward a goal of $15 million...
...culminating pose, however, the "Grand Arabesque, Third Time" (of which there are five or six variations in the exhibit) does not fare so well. The dancer has begun to lose her balance; and Degas communicates this with subtle wit by having her thrust her right arm away from the wing-spread position and lock elbow out in front--down towards the ground. Her palm has opened and is ready to break her fall. Of course, the statuettes leave unsaid that this maneuver might also break all the bones in the dancer's thin wrist were she to plummet forward...