Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back as 1944 the justices-the vigorous "Nine Young Men"-had been taking polite, legalistic pot shots at each other. These stemmed largely from ideological differences: Black headed the left wing and Jackson, along with Justice Frankfurter, the right wing...
Ruefully, P.A.C. listened to the reactions. Some Democrats were howling indignantly "that P.A.C. had been like a millstone around our neck." Said a Southern California Democrat: "The people have decided that the ultra-left wing is not working in the best interests of our country. It is working selfishly and not in a thoroughly American way. One of these days the C.I.O. and the P.A.C. will have to prove that they do not take orders from outside the United States...
Churchill paid his tribute to the U.S. in a full-flavored Churchillian image: "The American eagle sits on his perch, a large strong bird with formidable beak and claws. . . . Mr. Gromyko is sent every day to prod him with a sharp sickle, now on his beak, now under his wing, now in his tail feathers. All the time the eagle keeps quite still, but it would be a great mistake to suppose that nothing is going on inside the breast of the eagle...
...loving Wagnerian blonde; 2) Diana, wife of Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Mosley (she spent most of World War II in jail); 3) Jessica, who eloped to Spain, married Winston Churchill's nephew, the late Esmond Romilly (missing in action since 1941), and is now married to a left-wing San Francisco lawyer; 4) Pamela, wife of Derek Ainslie Jackson, a British physicist who has ridden as a jockey in the Grand National Steeplechase...
Asking the Flies. They had hardly warmed up to the job when they discovered that Nature had done it 50,000,000 years ago: flies and other "dipterous insects" were actually equipped with vibrating gyroscopic flight instruments (see cut). Just behind the trailing edge of each wing they had "halteres": small rods with round balls on their ends. When the insect is airborne, or even walking, these vibrate 160 to 210 times per second. The plane of vibration is fixed in relation to the insect's fuselage. When the insect banks, turns climbs or dives, the gyroscope tries...