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Word: winging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eagles in cages on the nightly news finally disappeared. And Reagan had just taken office. He has been the president of my adolescence all the way to my first tenuous steps into adulthood. As the child of liberal parents, I had soberly assessed the possiblities of a religious-right wing autocracy and found it likely, not to mention the likelihood of my life ending in a ditch in Central America...

Author: By Charles N. W. keckler, | Title: Wanted: A Face to Hate | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...renovate another residence for the black fraternity whose house was burned down. Students at Syracuse University last month organized a week-long symposium to celebrate their racial and cultural diversity. The University of Chicago's mainstream paper, Maroon, took the lead in denouncing staffers of a right-wing campus periodical who humiliated homosexuals by placing phony personal ads in a newspaper and then exposing the identities of those who answered. As a result of the Maroon's campaign, two editors of the offending publication were suspended last spring and a $10.1 million damage suit has been filed against them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bigots in The Ivory Tower | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...trouble for "Red Harry," as the right-wing press dubs him, is that he is not really in charge. His phone is being tapped. The CIA has infiltrated his Cabinet. His own intelligence chief is ferreting out scandals, real and invented, in an effort to bring down his government. In A Very British Coup, an engrossing new Masterpiece Theatre presentation, Perkins starts out trying to make a revolution. He ends up making a stand for the quaint notion that governments should be run by the people elected to office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Red Harry's Revolution | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...noon the trailing Tomcat flying in the wing position locked its radar on one of the Floggers. In numerous past skirmishes, Libyan pilots had reported any such radar targeting to their ground controller, who had always told them to break off and head home. This time, U.S. authorities insisted, the pilot did not send any such alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemical Reaction: The U.S. presses Libya over a nerve-gas plant | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...diminutive Yitzhak Shamir struggled to make his voice heard. His Likud bloc must agree to share power with Labor, he pleaded, "to be united against the danger of a Palestinian state." But even that potent argument elicited little but jeers from hundreds of angry members of the right-wing Likud bloc's central committee. Cheers rang out only when Ariel Sharon, the big and assertive leader of the party's hard-liners, called for a narrow coalition without left-leaning Labor. "People in Labor say we must talk to the P.L.O.," he shouted. "That is not our stance." The raucous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Saying No to Arafat | 1/2/1989 | See Source »

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