Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walled city, and from here the Wehrmacht rumbled into its futile attack on Moscow in the winter of 1941. To take it, the Russians had to pierce a 40-mi. belt of defenses they described as "the strongest on the Eastern front." The fall of Smolensk turned the left wing of the German Dnieper line, marked a victory as important as that at Stalingrad...
Ambassador to Spain Sir Samuel Hoare, extreme right-wing Tory, told his Chelsea constituency: "The danger to Europe is not Russian influence but Russian isolation." The Ambassador representing British policy to Spain's Russia-hating Francisco Franco also said that "fearful souls" should understand that "Communism . . . is a national, not an international product," pointedly advised that those who fear Communism "should so put your house in order that your social and political conditions will silence any demand for its introduction...
...Cabinet changes indicated a calculated swing to the moderate right. Winston Churchill passed over Laborites like ambitious Herbert Morrison, crotchety leftist Sir Stafford Cripps, right-wing Tories like Samuel Hoare (see p. 38). On the whole, Britons approved the shifts, decided that Churchill felt strong enough to swing the country behind his kind of Conservatives now and after...
...hundred years ago the Virginia Minstrels, at the Bowery Amphitheatre, introduced Manhattan to a new art form, conceived in blackface and dedicated to the proposition that the white man could equal Negro comedy, song and dance. The Music Hall's directors strewed its stage with comedians and buck & wing dancers, got themselves a towering interlocutor in a yellow satin dress suit, and put on a 38-minute minstrel show of huge, streamlined proportions...
...early weeks of war proved that the traditional emblem had a bad drawback: from certain angles on the wing of a plane diving or turning in the sun, the red heart of the star could be confused with Japan's plane marking-a large red disc (known to U.S. flyers as "the meatball"). Trigger-nervous gunners occasionally fired on planes that turned out to be American. So the red circle was painted out, leaving a plain white star...