Word: winging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applications of materials and industrial technology were increasing rapidly. It was not hard to imagine a bicycle chain driving a propeller or an arrangement of spars and spoke wire strengthening a fragile open structure. From their experiments with gliders, the Wrights learned to control flight by wingwarping: tilting one wing up while bending the other down compensated for the unbalancing effect of the wind. The mechanical principle and its realization became clear to Wilbur one day while he was idly twisting a long inner-tube box. A historian would later equate the importance of this incident with Newton's observation...
...country's black majority, lined up behind the total-apartheid Conservative Party, giving it 26% of all votes cast and easily eclipsing the liberal Progressive Federals as the country's second major party. For the first time in Nationalist rule, the government found itself with a right-wing party as the official opposition. The lurch to the right sets the stage for a struggle between the Nationalists and the Conservatives, led by former Dutch Reformed Church Minister Andries Treurnicht, to see which party can sound more determined to protect the white minority...
While most Democratic Progressives share that belief, friction has arisen in the party on how the goal should be achieved. Last month party militants wanted to stage a demonstration outside the Presidential Office Building despite the risk of violent confrontation. At the last minute, the party's moderate wing, led by Legislative Yuan Member Kang Ning-hsiang, had the protest called off. Kang's followers are committed to a nonviolent, parliamentary path to power. While the two factions differ on such matters as how often to hold street protests, last week's demonstration was widely viewed as a sign...
...threatened excommunication for those who disobeyed and even controlled access to the military planes that until lately provided the only transportation in and out of the area. A fervent anti-Communist and admirer of the military, Dom Miguel belongs to the minority of Brazil's bishops who oppose left-wing liberation theology, which follows Marxist-style analysis of social oppression...
Lieut. Colonel Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho was a hero. A leader of the bloodless coup of 1974 that brought democracy to Portugal after 48 years of right-wing dictatorship, Otelo ran unsuccessfully for President in 1976 and again four years later. But last week, after a 19-month trial, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for "undermining" the government. The court ruled that an organization Otelo founded was a front for the Forcas Populares 25 de Abril, the shadowy terrorist group responsible for a wave of assassinations and bombings since 1980. Forty-seven co-defendants were also convicted...