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Word: winging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Give it a break, Jeff. Protesters are not "like birds ... who like nothing more than to flock together," and who flit from issue to issue in search of the chic-est cause. Activists are thinking people who, for the most part, ascribe to a broad left-wing agenda. Their personal political concerns may range from union organizing, to feminism, to national self-determinism in the third world, to civil rights struggles here at home...

Author: By Mitchell A. Orenstein, | Title: Diversifying After Divestment | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...support. Of the 15 elected members of Parliament who belong to Blaize's New National Party, five have defected to Brizan's National Democratic Congress. Some fear Brizan may split the country's political center and ensure the return of former Prime Minister Sir Eric Gairy, whose eccentric, right-wing regime during the late 1970s led to Bishop's rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grenada One U.S. Invasion Later . . . | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

Goldsmith also still has Ginette, after a fashion. Now 51 and divorced ! since 1978, she lives in one wing of Goldsmith's Tudor-style Paris mansion, originally built for the brother of King Louis XIV. In the other wing of the same estate, across a courtyard bright with impatiens, lives Goldsmith's companion, Laure Boulay de la Meurthe, 36, a slim beauty with waist-length brown hair, and their four-year-old daughter Charlotte. De la Meurthe is the editor of a monthly style section in L'Express, the weekly newsmagazine that Goldsmith controls. There is also Goldsmith's legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lucky Gambler: Sir James Goldsmith Is a Billionaire Buccaneer | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...been great," said the 24-year coach of the Elis. "The quarterback's great, the halfback's great, the wing-back's great, the tailback's great, the flanker's great, and the split end's great...

Author: By Stu Wexler, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: A Profile of Carm Cozza He Likes It Done Good | 11/21/1987 | See Source »

Melrose has taken Andy Janfanza's spot at right wing on the third line with Vukonich and John Murphy. With Janfanza now centering the fourth line, Craig Taucher was bumped off the roster for the Brown and Yale matches...

Author: By Adam J. Epstein, | Title: Icemen Defy Preseason Expectations | 11/18/1987 | See Source »

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