Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magnesium parachute flares had burned, guessed that they were responsible for the fierceness of the flames. No one knew yet how the fire started. But the Civil Aeronautics Board ruled that flares-designed to be dropped for night emergency landings and carried at a point where the wing joins the fuselage-must be removed from all DC-6 planes...
...Fellow-Traveling Rump?" What was the Democratic League? Even a good many Chinese were not sure. Once it had been the middle-party hope of a large number of Chinese liberals. Then the league's right wing (the Young China Party) had withdrawn, and the center (the Social Democrats) had been expelled. Chinese liberals now said that what was left looked like "a fellow-traveling rump...
Over & over, the men & women massed in the Caracas bull ring chanted "Caldera si, Gallegos no!" Venezuela's chief opposition party, the right-wing COPEI (Committee for Independent Electoral Political Organization), had at last found a candidate for the presidential election on Dec. 14. Against famed 63-year-old Novelist Romulo Gallegos, candidate of the ruling Acción Democrática, would be pitched young (31), burly (6 ft., 200 lbs.) Rafael Caldera, one of COPEI's founders...
Potter also scored the first Crimson goal of the game when the referee called a tripping penalty on left wing Willy Dawson. Dawson would have scored, however, even if the referee had not called the foul. Princeton got the equalizer five minutes later when Ernie Savage hooked in a goal from center-forward...
...tentative set of blueprints based on the Council's suggestions. The plans sent cold shivers of quizzical delight up the spines of those boosters who got a look. Shepley's fertile imagination had produced sketches of a six-story high main building connecting to a 2000-capacity theater wing. It was all wonderful, but like peace, how could it be realized...