Word: winging
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Saint right wing Scott Stevens drew goalie Tripp Tracy and a Crimson defender toward him on the right wing. He then fed a wide-open Scott Murphy, who should have been covered by that defenseman, on the other side of the net, and Murphy flipped the puck in for an easy goal...
...Populist Party that arose from that ferment was short-lived, but the common-man sentiments that it crystallized lived on. Separately or together they ran through the presidential campaigns of William Jennings Bryan and Prohibition, through Teddy Roosevelt's Progressives, the left-wing labor movement and the right-wing radio priesthood of Father Coughlin. And the Republican Revolution of 1994. "But the Republican populism of the past generation or so has been all antigovernment," says historian Alan Brinkley. "Buchanan is putting back the anticorporate elements...
...fists. He became an editorial writer on the Midwest's most conservative paper, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, writing blood-and-guts editorials in favor of Barry Goldwater and against the Great Society, decrying communism and the Red Menace. He pictured himself as a young version of the right-wing columnist Westbrook Pegler--"standing flat on his feet, swinging for the belly," as he wrote home at the time...
Buchanan returned to the West Wing at the beginning of President Ronald Reagan's second term as head of the White House speech-writing machinery. He bolstered Reagan with the Republican right wing, who worried that moderates like Jim Baker were restraining Reagan from being Reagan. But according to former Reagan press secretary Larry Speakes, Buchanan was more trouble than he was worth, and White House aides routinely spent hours cutting hard-line rhetoric from the speeches prepared by his shop...
...days after an I.R.A. bomb killed two people in London , the leader of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, was on the hustings, attempting to salvage his credibility as a peacemaker. As well he might. After the I.R.A. declared its cease-fire in August 1994, it was Adams who traipsed the world, telling the likes of Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg and Bill Clinton in Washington that violence had been banished from Ulster politics. The cease-fire, he insisted, was "complete." Peace talks could begin without the fear of I.R.A. guns under the table. Now the bombing...