Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Left-wing Labor Party leaders, dismayed by Hugh Gaitskell's ineffective opposition to Macmillian's Bermuda policy, have refused to modify more than slightly their stand against hydrogen bomb tests. Strong Parliamentary support behind this resolution has both shaken Gaitskell's leadership and threatened to raise an obstacle to British research in the nuclear field. Any disarmament plans intended to reduce nuclear weapons would now encounter strong British opposition. Both deterrent value and economy appear to demand nuclear research and stockpiling for defense...
...from 35,800 to 85,200. In one year Fotouhi arranged for as many as 2,400 showings of documentary films. The big Atoms for Peace exhibition that he brought to Hiroshima last year is still going the rounds. He has staged concerts by the First Marine Air Wing Drum and Bugle Corps, started a series of seminars on American culture, a Japanese-American folk-dance program. Last Christmas he dressed up as Santa Claus, visited the orphanages in town to distribute gifts...
...Pagliacci. Performed more than 200 times at the Metropolitan Opera, they were now rounding out a season that had only two more weeks to run. The casts were studded with familiar names, and in the pit was Fausto Cleva, veteran of the Met's Italian wing. But on this routine occasion the audience was treated to a beautifully sung, splendidly paced evening for which much of the credit went to two middle-aged American singers named Warren and Tucker...
...refused to handle it, on grounds that it might be libelous*; the book lambastes almost every major London daily from the Times to the tabloids, but most refused to reply or to review it. In one of the few magazine comments on the book, a columnist in the left-wing New Statesman and Nation declared: "His main case is both well founded and important, and it seems to me a shocking thing that it should be made so very difficult for the ordinary reading public to hear it." The New Statesman's columnist: Francis Williams...
...Though there were few instances of deliberate distortion during Britain's 1955 general-election campaign, a University of Manchester study of the major London dailies showed that the biggest-circulation newspapers, the Laborite Daily Mirror and the right-wing Daily Express, gave election material less than 6% of their total news space. *Noting with approval that Churchill had himself won a $14,000 libel suit against the Sunday People (TIME, Oct. 22), Evelyn Waugh wrote in the Spectator last week: "No one who knows Mr. Randolph Churchill and wishes to express distaste for him should ever...