Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plane; it will be adapted from the QSRA (for Quiet Short Haul Research Airplane), which Boeing developed for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The plane will be ideal for commuters, since it can take off and land on extremely short runways. Reason: its four engines mounted atop the wing blow exhaust over the upper surface, creating phenomenal lift...
While Treu was being secretly tried this spring, the Canadian government used the Official Secrets Act for the first time against a newspaper, prosecuting the Toronto Sun for disclosing a top-secret Mountie report on Soviet espionage. Critics complain that the Sun, a persistent right-wing gadfly to the Trudeau government, is being charged not with spilling secrets but with revealing government ineptness at dealing with Soviet spies...
...English case involves three small, militantly leftist magazines held in contempt for printing the name of an Intelligence Officer. Called Colonel B in court, the officer had testified against two left-wing journalists charged under the British O.S.A. with receiving unauthorized information. Four members of Parliament later deliberately uttered his real name in a nationally broadcast debate. Radio commentators, fearing prosecution, were careful not to repeat the name. The magazines were hand-slapped with small fines (less than $1,000 each), and much of the press ridiculed the whole farce...
...conservatism does not emerge like .50 cal. bursts of nonsense-sell TVA, abolish Social Security. True, he recites a solid right-wing litany of tax cuts, spending limitations, deregulation. But almost more important to the candidate is his fervor about the U.S. ("Most magnificent thing man has created"), hard work ("Dependence is not good for anybody"), individualism ("Most talented work force in the world"), hope ("The dream is not over"), fulfillment ("Every job is meaningful") and purpose ("The proper relationship of government...
...shootings, he begins to feel that his superiors in the police and justice departments are more suspicious of him than they are of the actual killer. He is disturbed by the government's excessive use of electronic surveillance techniques and their insistence that the perpetrators must be left-wing radicals, probably from the universities. The investigation serves as an awakening and education for Rogas in the reality of power politics. Initially annoyed by the labor unions who seem to paralyze society with their incessant strikes, he gradually becomes aware of a far more serious threat to the nation...