Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Faced with an experience that is often too rich and complex to pin down, Salisbury begins to wander between aimless lists ("the very names a litany--Prairie du Chien, La Crosse, Winona, Wabasha, Red Wing") and inconsequent facts ("that watercourse which Anthony Trollope thought the finest in the world"). His airplane-window view of America inspires musings on our manifest destiny--he looks out over "the watershed of the Mississippi, the valleys of Ohio and the plainslands of Missouri, a continent in itself as surely designed for America's use as a woman's womb for the seed of humanity...
...been the most successful left-wing party in Massachusetts, consistently gathering enough signatures to place its candidates on the ballot and usually receiving about five per cent of the vote...
...disastrous second period could have been salvaged when Cornell's Robin Lang went to the penalty box at 17:08. Not only did the Crimson power play fail for the fourth straight time, but Cornell's Mark Trivett was allowed to casually stroll in on Petrovek on left wing...
...system. Otherwise, the package contained few specifics and appeared to be concerned with upholding the old order. Many Spaniards suspected, for example, that the promised new chamber of the Cortes would do little to reduce the power of the National Council, which is dominated by the Francoist right wing. "I thought the speech would be conservative," declared Socialist Enrique Tierno Galván, "but I didn't think it would be reactionary." Added a high Communist leader: "Nothing has changed. It is the same as before...
...robber barons and other oversized targets. Walt Kelly's Pogo once made Lyndon Johnson a longhorn steer and Spiro Agnew a hyena. Charles Schulz's Peanuts has long twitted such current topics as alienation and sexism. But over the years Li'l Abner began spouting right-wing boilerplate, and Dogpatch has degenerated into a flaccid strip of fools. Kelly died in 1973; his widow Selby, who struggled admirably to keep Pogo going, shut shop last year. As for Peanuts, Schulz's kids are still too wrapped up in security blankets and warm puppies to say much...