Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Action" is the Ku Klux Klan of the north. Like the Klan, it claims to be everything,--anti-communist, anti-fascist, and pro-American. Patronized by Col. MeCormick and the "Chicago Tribune," it pretends to be the right wing's answer to the Political Action Committee. Its chairman is one Edward A. Hayes, an old "America First Committee" coadjutor who considers himself an expert on communism and subversive activities. At present, while heavily financed by the Republican isolationist bloc in the middle west, "American Action" has been soliciting contributions and a mailing list all over the country with which...
...young wing of the Canadian Army, which favors standardization with the U.S., argues ominously that Britain should be secondary in Canada's planning, as the next war's aggressors will surely strike directly at the North American heartland. Thus, if another war comes, Canada and the U.S. will be forced to fight together from the start...
...been most responsible for Navy's 1945 triumph over Penn. Elusive Skippy Minis! threw a pass for Penn's first touchdown, scored three times himself, sat out the second half. Penn's method, under colorful Coach George ("Call Me George") Munger is mostly single-wing power, tricked up with a few reverses and a good passing attack. Munger believes in limiting his offense to a few basic plays, uses a metronome to get the timing down pat. Fellow Ivy Leaguers moaned that Penn had outgrown the football played by Harvard, Yale, etc., and once more debated whether...
...Blames Wing Halfbacks...
Commenting on the loss at Dartmouth last week, Coach MacDonald placed the blame largely on the wing halfbacks who failed to cover the Indian outside forwards and the failure by the Crimson attack to make full use of its wings on offense. To try to overcome these weaknesses Mac has reorganized the forward line promoting Roger Lazarus to first-string inside right, and raising Hugh Morse to first-string inside left. Phil Potter will stay at center forward with Arnold Corrigan on the outside left. With Jocko Smith still out with an injured leg, Curtis Cate will open at outside...