Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shrinking spaces between the nation's cities, such adaptable species of wildlife as the white-tailed deer and the meadow lark manage to thrive and multiply. Not so the whooping crane, tallest (5 ft.) of North American birds. A stately, aloof marsh dweller with white plumage, black wing tips, a cap of bare red skin atop its head and a trumpetlike cry that can be heard two miles away, the whooping crane (Grus Americana) has become for U.S. conservationists, naturalists and nature lovers a symbol of their fight to save rare species from extinction...
...Higginbottom gets the nod as wing on the first line (and it is quite possible that he will), he will provide the speed to the line that has been sorely missed since Kelley's injury. Higginbottom, who has played on the third line all year long, ic actually good enough to be of first or second line caliber. But when Weiland found that Bob McVey, Dave Vietze, and Dick Fischer worked so well together, he decided to leave Higginbottom on the third line to make it as powerful as possible...
...could still fall back on the explanation he had made at the hearing's start: "I don't have any high hopes of being successful in opposition to Justice Brennan's nomination. I have great fear that the left wing-and I emphasize the left-wing Democrats-and the so-called modern Republicans-just what that means I don't know, but the modern Republicans-will roll over and play dead and will approve his nomination...
...appears to me that you have chosen to emphasize a few seemingly unsavory elements in Bunker's record and have tried your best to neglect mentioning the many achievements which are to his credit. You seem to dwell upon the connection of Col. Bunker with "so-called right-wing causes" and, particularly, with the suggestion that his nomination is an expression of alumni dissatisfaction with the appointment of the James Lecturer, Oppenheimer. I could not avoid the conclusion that the CRIMSON was, in this instance, trying to effect an early disenchantment with candidate Bunker. Perhaps I am mistaken...
...Standard-Times also said that he has been associated with "so-called right-wing causes" since his retirement from the Army in 1951. "A direct descendant of Nantucket whalers, Col. Bunker has addressed the Friends of Senator McCarthy and other right-wing organizations," according to the newspaper...