Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wing Clipping. It was the opening shot in Labor's campaign to clip the wings of the House of Lords. As Prime Minister Attlee explained to the House of Commons later, the 1911 act prevented the Lords from holding up "money bills" introduced in the House of Commons, but the Lords could still block any other legislation for a period of two years. Labor wanted the delaying power cut to one year. Attlee's main interest in the matter was to insure clear passage of Labor's forthcoming bill to nationalize iron and steel. From the Tory...
...complex plays. Michigan's current squad is scholastically above the general student average at Ann Arbor. Crisler's system is built around nine basic delayed hits and the same number of "quick hits." But all 18 can be run from seven different formations: a single-wing (balanced), a single-wing (unbalanced), the five-one, the short punt, the "T," man-in-motion, and something he calls the "300." These, plus nine basic passing plays and some "Specials," bring the total to over 170. No iron man in the days of wooden stands ever had so much to learn...
...picture is mounted with a radiant opulence. Items: $250,000 to recreate and cremate 17th Century London; $100,000 to reconstruct a wing of Whitehall Palace; $90,000 for Amber's wardrobe; $100,000 to film one kiss (which was later...
...suppressing six of the poems as obscene. Five years later came the crisis in his long descent towards damnation; on Jan. 23, 1862, he wrote, "I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror . . . and today I have received a singular warning. I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me." Baudelaire was dying slowly of syphilis...
...entire north wing of the building was materially damaged by the blast, and the furniture in several of the rooms was totally destroyed. Though the culprit responsible was never caught, startled College authorities surmised that some prankster, underestimating the potentialities of his boxful of gunpowder, had placed the bomb in the cellar, with its fuse, long enough to permit escape, running out the window...