Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Have you, too, been bamboozled by American ballyhoo?" asked London's left-wing People under the headline: TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE REAL AMERICA ! With this lead the Sunday People (circ. 4,948,215), which wallows weekly in a rich home-brew of slaughter, society scandal and police-court sex, last week decanted a bottle of sour-mash bamboozlement imported from the old colony across the Atlantic...
Soon after half time Ron Eikenberry broke away down the wing for a forty yard run, and tactical punting by Joslin and Jim Damis kept the Crimson in an attacking position. Merkel also threatened the Green line when he grabbed a loose ball 20 yards out, only to be tackled just short...
...same time, the Arab Legion, the King's loyal and predominantly Bedouin army, began a roundup of Communists, left-wing leaders and extreme nationalists, in an attempt to snuff out the Red influence which has helped keep this nation in seething ferment...
...there is one outstanding thing about the career of soft-spoken William Moreland, 61, it is that he has managed to last so long as school superintendent of Houston. Almost since he took over in 1945, his schools have been in trouble-largely because the powerful right-wing forces on the school board and in the city have been determined to keep Houston free of anything that could be remotely called "controversial." In one way or another, Houston's school board has chalked up as impressive a record of sheer orneriness as any big-city board in the nation...
...voice for moderation. He bore Ebey's dismissal philosophically, did not even get ruffled when a local radio commentator named Joe Worthy took to the air to urge parents and pupils to form a secret club to tattle on teachers who did not echo the right-wing line. But last week Moreland's monumental patience came to an end when the board flung itself into another orgy of book banning...