Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign weapon: Labor's ability to work smoothly with Britain's powerful trade unions. Beyond that, many voters were well aware that Callaghan was saddled with a compromise manifesto, or platform, that had been hammered out between the party's moderates and its disproportionately influential left wing. Callaghan had held out for a program that would not frighten away crucial swing-voters that both Labor and the Tories need in order to win office. A tough and shrewd infighter, he made it plain at one point that the choice was between him and the left...
Midway through the second half, the defense got a hand in on the game's sharpest goal. The ball came out to defense wing Anne Velie, who passed it to Chris Sailer at coverpoint. Sailer then jetted a perfect pass to Lisa Kent, who slung the ball in for a tally...
MacMillan said the laxwomen tried to whip wing-to-wing passes across the field and either set up ground shots from the outside, or give the ball to a feeder behind the net who would toss the ball out to one of the four-corner attackers...
...sharpest goal for the laxwomen came when Kent made her cut in front of the goal and turned just in time to receive a pass from attack wing Sue St. Louis, who had positioned herself behind the goal. Kent then wheeled with the ball and quick-sticked it pass an unsuspecting Minuteman goalie...
...only two conspicuous examples of old-fashioned "press-lording" left. The political venom in William Loeb's Manchester Union Leader skews New Hampshire's politics, and even the state's closely watched presidential primary. In Michigan, John P. McGoff fired two editors in his small right-wing chain when they refused to give front-page play to a couple of vicious anti-Carter stories. Last week the government of South Africa admitted that it made available $11.5 million from a secret slush fund in 1974 during McGoff s unsuccessful attempt to buy the Washington Star. Presumably, South...