Word: winging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trial by fire, the personal stakes are high for the feisty former nine-term New York Congressman who vainly sought the Republican presidential nomination last year. The self-styled "progressive conservative" has long turned the neat trick of attracting right-wing support with his antitax, free- enterprise economic policies while urging his party to reach out to blacks by conceiving compassionate programs. He had hoped to turn HUD into a shining example of how his party could put capitalist tools to work easing the problems of the poor, spurring new development in the inner cities and providing housing...
...course, he graduated from a Russian gymnasium ((high school)). He must have read Russian classics. But he was penetrated with the spirit of internationalism. He did not belong to any nation himself. He was "inter" national -- between nations. During 1917, he showed himself to be in the extreme left wing of revolutionary democracy. Everything that happened in 1917 was guided by ((proponents of)) revolutionary democracy, but it all fell out of their hands. They were not sufficiently consistent, not sufficiently merciless, while he was merciless and consistent to the end, and in that sense his appearance in Russian history...
...antiapartheid leaders, the Rev. Frank Chikane, along with Mandela's wife Winnie, quickly called a press conference to dismiss the talks in Cape Town as a "nonevent," an act of "political mischief" staged by Mandela's jailers. In Lusaka, Joe Modise, commander of Spear of the Nation, the guerrilla wing of the A.N.C. that Mandela helped create in 1961, insisted that "only the armed struggle will bring the Boers to negotiations...
Hydraulic systems allow pilots to manipulate the wing and tail controls. Without them, aviation officials say, the plane would be uncontrollable...
...plane, crippled by a loss of hydraulic power, pitched violently to its right just a few feet from the ground, scraped its right wing, cartwheeled into a ball of fire and broke into pieces during an emergency landing about 4 p.m. at the Sioux Gateway Airport...