Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposal [is] a badly camouflaged mine . . . inserted under the future security organization. He heads the most reactionary wing of the Republican Party. He calls for no haste in the formation of a security organization. His thoughts are clear...
...east wing of the White House one day last week, Jimmy Byrnes stood by while his longtime friend, Judge Fred M. Vinson, took the oath of office for the job Byrnes had just left: Director of the Office of War Mobilization and reConversion...
Horse v. Engine. The Third was also within a dozen miles of joining up with the right wing of Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First, whose main forces had broken out in a swift armored drive aimed at the central German plain...
...There is no explaining wartime reading tastes," cabled TIME Correspondent William Gray from Manila. "Tonight I climbed to an artillery observation post beside the Pasig River overlooking the besieged Intramuros. Beyond its far wall the Manila Hotel's north wing was burning. Two hundred yards across the river a concrete building was ablaze. Shells from our Long Toms whistled past. Below us machine guns sputtered. Through it all Captain Francis X. Shannon Jr. of Cincinnati sat in a chair and calmly read a paperbound book. I glanced at the title. It was Margery Wilson's Pocket Book...
...Sophie Wing (Tallulah Bankhead) is a famous actress whose husband went abroad and enlisted in 1939, was soon after reported missing, and later declared legally dead. Now in 1944 Sophie is about to marry her leading man (Donald Cook) when a queer phone call announces that her husband is on his way to her house. Before he arrives, Sophie's fiancé, then her father, then her little daughter, and finally Sophie herself have extensive visions of what the reunion will be like. Keeping to the brittle comedy mood of the play, Barry uses the visions for satire rather...