Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hardly imminent. The normally liberal Democratic Party commands the White House, controls the Congress and most of the statehouses and legislatures. But from the President on down, Democrats are behaving much more cautiously than in the past, their liberalism laced with heavy doses of conservatism. Such a stalwart right-wing leader as National Review Publisher William Rusher believes that Jimmy Carter is so conservative that he might even be worth supporting over a more liberal Republican. With the tide running in their favor, the challenge for the conservatives is to translate success with current, perhaps transient issues into an enduring...
...mock combat raged in southern Germany between two opposing powerful military forces: the "invading" Orange and the defending Blue. Code-named Carbon Edge, the "war" was a NATO military exercise involving more than 50,000 troops, 4,000 tanks and armored personnel carriers, 7,500 other vehicles, 90 fixed-wing aircraft and 500 helicopters. Carbon Edge was by far the biggest single event of Reforger 77, this year's edition of NATO's traditional fall training extravaganza. West German, British, Canadian, Dutch and Belgian troops and American forces based in Europe were mobilized for the event...
...carry their insults against our party," declared Party Chief Enrico Berlinguer. "Bologna will surely not be disrupted by their lies." Berlinguer accused them of regarding "the Communist Party as the enemy to be defeated." In a bitter reference to the French intellectuals' manifesto, he noted that "the right wing often disguises itself as leftist, and cultural idiots at home and abroad fall right into the trap...
York completed her day with two more scores before the half ended, off crossing passes from Mleczko and right wing Mary Howard. It was the right-left cooperation that produced the effective crossing passes and resulted in the dynamic Harvard offense...
...only did the freshmen play well their first time out in a Crimson uniforn, but reassigned midfielders Matt Bowyer (to right wing) and John Sanacore (to left fullback) turned in outstanding games against Wesleyan...