Word: wings
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Central Elections Committee. She has always stayed close on the political heels of her father (while feathering his left wing). Like him, she has served time in jail for political agitation against the British, as did her husband, Lawyer-Newspaper Executive-Member of Parliament Feroze Gandhi (no kin to Mohandas). Also like her father, she avoids religious orthodoxy, once explained: "I don't believe in temples, churches or mosques, but one should have an aim in life which is above one's personal needs or desires...
Conversation Wing-Ding. Of all things, Mr. De perhaps loved best a good wingding of a conversation; in one evening's discussion he dwelt perceptively on Diego Rivera, the habits of alligators, Dickens, the Oklahoma legislature, fine printing, Arabian oil, academic freedom, the winter treatment for banana trees in Dallas patios. And what he most abhorred, in his vain way, was weakness-especially weakness of the intellect. Aging, the sight of one eye totally gone, he began to suffer the blood-draining anguish of aplastic anemia. He feared that somehow his mind soon would be affected, found the thought...
KEEP THE ASPIDISTRA FLYING, by George Orwell. An early (1936) novel of Orwell's, but new to the U.S. Its slashingly satirical attack on left-wing intellectuals and phony-proletarian martyrs of the '305 shows how early Orwell understood that it is the puny fellow traveler who clears the way for Big Brother...
...World War I a homing pigeon named Cher Ami, on duty with the famed Lost Battalion, braved gunfire from both the enemy and the Allies, flew 25 miles in 30 minutes with an urgent message for Allied gunners, arrived at his destination wounded in a leg and a wing, saved the battalion. In World War II a pigeon called G.I. Joe flew countless missions in the Mediterranean, saved a British brigade in Italy when he carried a message canceling a bombardment of Colvi Vecchia, which the British had entered ahead of schedule (the Lord Mayor of London gave...
...they will play upon Johnson's presidential ambitions, for the canny Texan must know he cannot hope to win the 1960 nomination without support from the liberal Northern wing. He may therefore be disposd to compromise. But it is in the give-and-take of the Senate and House, rather than in the artificial workings of a committee with a top level but nothing beneath it, that any progressive legislation and responsible Opposition can be molded...