Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...below) that differences of opinion are part of the American political system, and then he added his point that the U.S. cannot turn back to 1890. Best translation: Ike intends to stick by his Modern Republican guns, but he does not intend to turn them on the other wing of his party ("Our job," explained a top ranker in the National Committee, "is to bust a gut to elect every Republican who gets nominated...
...forces.") The Jordanian Cabinet's taunting response was to propose establishing diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia. For the young King, the moment had come. First summoning 50 top army officers to the palace and exacting loyalty pledges, he demanded the Cabinet's resignation. Nabulsi, a left-wing and anti-Western economist (educated at the American University of Beirut), submitted his resignation but confidently expected his leaving to stir up trouble. His coalition controlled the majority of seats in Jordan's Parliament; the explosive street crowds of Jordan were on his side, and his policies were in cahoots...
Although one wing of the rambling Rabat palace is still called "the harem," its inhabitants are mostly poor relatives or aging concubines left over from his father's regime. Court attendants are now referred to as "ladies in waiting." Explains one Moroccan: "The word concubine is outmoded...
...when he was 28. Later, the record showed, he had held office in the pro-Communist American Friends of the Chinese People; once in 1942 he flashed his diplomatic credentials before an FBI agent to try to rescue some Marxist documents in the possession of a left-wing Japanese professor seized for repatriation. This background became the business of U.S. security agencies when Norman served briefly in 1945 as a counter-intelligence officer on the staff of General MacArthur in Tokyo...
...overseas contingent includes Scots international trialist Alan Waddell at scrum half, Argentinian Mike Reynal on the wing, and South African John Chalsty at flank...