Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Support from Missouri. Much of the doubting was predictable: right-wing Republicans were inclined against granting additional foreign economic aid; some liberal Democrats held that Eisenhower had fooled the people during the 1956 campaign and that he should now "face facts." Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield of Montana wondered whether a "serious constitutional question" was involved, to wit, whether the Congress should commit itself in advance to "a presidential declaration of war." Considering these doubts, Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington hoped that the Congress would authorize "whatever is necessary for the President to have in order...
...responsible assignments during the 1956 campaign. Although he followed his considered judgment of the merits in each case, his votes for the Bricker amendment and against the censure of Joe McCarthy (even the club's pariahs have their rights, reasoned Knowland) further endeared him to the Republican right wing. But there is a wide gulf between Knowland and the Neanderthals-the McCarthys, the Bill Jenners and the "Molly" Malones. The gulf was widened considerably last fall when Knowland campaigned 25,000 miles for Eisenhower and Nixon-and especially when he accepted appointment as a U.S. delegate...
...first years it relied heavily on exposés. It broke postwar West Germany's first parliamentary scandal with charges that two Bundestag Deputies were corrupt; they were not reelected. Later, before the 1953 elections, Der Spiegel charged bribe-taking in the right-wing Bayernpartei; all 17 party Deputies lost their seats in Bonn. Last year it broke the story of Prince Bernhard's rift with Queen Juliana, of The Netherlands over Faith Healer Greet Hofmans (TIME, June 25). The magazine's most sensational exposé was a 1952 story charging that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, whom...
Ebby Donaldson scored first for the home team at 4:28 picking up a Crimson clearing pass in front of the nets, and then wing Elvin Beabien followed with the last A.I.C. tally just twenty seconds later...
Coach Cooney Weiland said that Ullyot should make a valuable addition to the squad since his return to defense would strengthen that post as well as enabling a converted wing to move back to the forward line...