Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Short decided that an anti-sabotage alert was enough. This was the position in which the Jap carrier planes found him, with his planes parked wing-to-wing on the airstrips and his guards on the qui vive for saboteurs...
...State Department has been more unmercifully attacked by the liberal-left wing press than Jimmy Dunn. (Reputedly, he had a big hand in the pro-Franco and pro-Vichy appeasement policies of the early war years.) But Jimmy Dunn is also a shy, aloof, painstaking worker who knows State Department doings inside out. He started as a clerk 26 years ago, married an Armour, lives fashionably on Massachusetts Avenue...
They looked good to his father, who packed Dong off to Hong Kong's Lingnan Academy to learn about art. The headmaster, who had studied in Paris, took Dong under his wide-sleeved wing, taught him both Oriental Hsieh-yi ("to draw a conception") and occidental Hsieh-cheng ("to draw reality"). Dong inclined toward Hsieh-cheng...
Rift in the Ranks? Against fusion and Nenni were the highly respected right-wing Socialist delegates, Giuseppe Saragat (proletarian in suspenders and a cheap cotton shirt open at the neck) and Novelist Ignazio Silone (Fontamara). Cried Saragat: "It is not by chance that the slogan of 'fusion' is launched simultaneously from Norway to Italy. . . . Russia seeks guarantees for herself through territorial conquest and creation of buffer states. ... If socialism renounces its complete autonomy, the interests of the working class will be subordinated to the interest of one state. ... To speak of fusion ... is to cause a possible rift...
Since 1940 stocky, spectacled Alvin Hansen had commuted weekly from Cambridge to Washington to preach his left-wing economic views. For many years the hierarchy of New Deal officialdom has been fascinated by his contentions that: 1) there was no need to worry about the staggering size of the national debt so long as Government money was spent to create new wealth within the nation (TVAs, slum clearance, etc.); 2) prolific Government spending must be undertaken to level out the valleys in business cycles...