Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Right-wing forces will sweep the Italian elections tomorrow, Gaetano Salvemini, Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on the History of Italian Civilization, predicted last night...
...voter faces a multiplicity of choices on the ballot, chief among which are: the steadily growing neo-Fascist organization, Nationalistic Social Movement; Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democrats, the party now in power, backed by the Vatican and the United States; Saragat's right-wing Socialists, who recently broke away from the Nenni left-wing, which is combined with Togliatti's Communists in the Democratic Front...
...Left-Wing Cad. Leisurely, precise Percy Cudlipp is a first-rate political journalist and a competent, quick-minded editor. Cudlipp sits in with Labor M.P.s on party policy debates, and must answer the closed-door criticisms of his readers at the Labor Party Congress each year. The Herald lambasted Fuel Minister Shinwell in last year's coal crisis, often prints signed critical articles by Labor backbenchers...
...Evening Standard at 27, Cudlipp became Fleet Street's youngest editor.* Leaving the Beaver for the "politically more congenial" Herald in 1938, Cudlipp, an amateur versifier, dashed off his own epitaph: "One satisfaction I have had, and this will be eternal; I may become a left-wing cad, but I once ran a high-class journal...
...Beta Kappa quarterly, The American Scholar, is going to throw an "autograph-party" for his chick in his home town (Cleveland) and will speak in its defense on a radio program named Books on Trial. Coward-McCann's bird has already been taken under the hot wing of the Literary Guild, thus assuring Britain's Old Mother Goudge (who wrote the best-selling Green Dolphin Street) a minimum first printing of 615,000 copies...