Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were always stories about how the former head of the intelligence agency was now on the board of the corporation whose president had a brother at the World Bank who arranged billion-dollar loans so that a third world nation with a new right-wing regime propped up by the intelligence agency could finance a construction project proposed by the corporation...
...incident that provoked last week's violence was a funeral procession for two left-wing Alevi teachers who had been gunned down by unknown assailants. A throng of 3,000 right-wing demonstrators blocked the procession's route. In the fighting that followed, three Sunnis were killed. Then the Sunnis began looting, burning and killing. Local R.P.P. deputies frantically cabled Premier Ecevit that "under an R.P.P government even our own people cannot be sure of protection in our headquarters...
...appeared before the game that coach Billy Cleary had finally made the changes necessary to tighten his defense and inspire the offense. Cleary moved captain John Cochrane back to defense, John Dunderdale from defense to left wing, and reshuffled all his lines. And, with George and Jack Hughes back in the line-up, how much worse could it be than the discouraging 5-3 loss at Northeastern Thursday night...
...Indira protesters poured into the streets of Indian cities setting fire to buses and buildings and hanging Prime Minister Morarji Desai in effigy; at least 15 people died and Gandhi's followers claimed that 32,000 demonstrators were arrested. Two members of the party's youth wing hijacked an Indian Airlines jet to the holy city of Benares with 132 people aboard; their effort to exchange the hostages for Gandhi's freedom fizzled when their weapons turned out to be a toy pistol and a ball disguised as a grenade...
...which grossed $98.6 million. Heaven Can Wait, Warren Beatty's good-humored remake of the 1941 fantasy Here Comes Mr. Jordan, grossed $72 million, and The Goodbye Girl, another film from late 1977, grossed $82 million. Though it opened only this month, Superman seems to have taken wing already, with an estimated $12 million gross in its first week...