Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the wing of Holding Carter, Mississippi's forthright Pulitzer Prizewinning editor, three 28-year-old veterans last month launched the Greenwood (Miss.) Morning Star. In their maiden issue they offered readers some pin money: $1 for each week's best news...
...this is democracy," said one of them last week, "then I'd rather be a Nazi. When we enter the university, we have to pass a denazification board. They ask questions not about our scholastic ability, but what we think of Dr. Schumacher and his right-wing Social Democrats. Almost all of us were former members of Hitlerjugend or some such Nazi organization. Now they tell us the only way we can prove our anti-Naziism is by joining the S.E.D." (The Soviet-sponsored Socialist-Communist Fusion Party...
When nationalistic, left-wing President Lazaro Cardenas expropriated the great foreign oil companies, Mexicans went on a patriotic spree. Exultant workers hailed the end of "foreign exploitation" as they paraded through city streets and village plazas; bands blared; housewives offered their silver to help pay for the $400,000,000 seizure. That was eight years ago. Last week TIME learned that President-elect Miguel Aleman might let foreign oil interests return...
Clementine & Alice. Moscow was a little behind the times. Soviet teen-agers were still busy with Chattanooga Choo-choo and Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer. Russia's strangest importation from the West was the U.S. Marines' Hymn, sung to the tune of Clementine (which might give the Russians a dangerously erroneous idea of the Leathernecks). Latest favorite: the American Soldier's Song, which most Russians believe is constantly crooned by G.I.s; it is a speeded up version of There Is a Tavern in the Town, in which the tavern has become the scene...
...admirer of left-wing ideology, Dr. Scott once defined the difference between Socialism and Communism as "the difference between an ordinary dog bite and hydrophobia." Nor did he have any more use for other brands of collectivism. Returning from Europe on a German ship soon after Hitler came to power, he was summoned to a ceremony at which the new swastika emblem was raised in place of the republican flag. When an officer asked him to salute, he replied: "I would as soon salute that diagram as the first proposition of Euclid...