Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stockholm was swinging to her new course, Carstens-Johannsen turned to answer a phone call from the crow's nest reporting the movements of the fast-approaching ship. When he came back out onto the port wing of the bridge, he saw the sight he would never forget. Before him in the dark Atlantic loomed the brightly lighted shape of a passenger liner, showing her starboard green running light, and moving fatally and majestically across Stockholm's path. "Hard starboard! Full astern!" The desperate orders rang out again in the sedate courtroom. "I saw there would come...
Tito's remark that Yugoslavia would have "to swallow" attacks from the Soviet right wing was interpreted as meaning that any show of aggressive independence at this point would merely help the rightists. After the surprise departure last week, a Belgrade spokesman said that Tito had gone to Yalta to "strengthen Khrushchev's hand." But if Khrushchev is in trouble with his own party, how does Tito's presence at Yalta help him? There were no firm answers to this question last week, but hints dropped through Communist channels over the past few months indicated how Tito...
Michigan State's men tried the T, the split T, and the single wing. But none moved consistently against Stanford's solidly briefed and heavier line. At half time the score was tied 7-7. Daugherty had a new tactic ready. Coming out for the second half his team shifted to a weird formation-a single wing to the right with the line unbalanced to the left. Disconcerted and caught unprepared, the rugged Stanford line split wide open. State's Halfback Clarence Peaks knifed ruthlessly between linemen cut down by blockers they never saw. Before the Stanford...
...biggest unknown in the backfield is 214-pound Gianelly. He was well suited for the power play in the single wing, but whether or not he can adapt the speed necessary for the A-Formation will not be known until this afternoon...
...fact that Stevenson does not have to convince a large wing of his party of America's educational needs helps to explain his much bolder and more comprehensive plan of action. Although there are some Democrats who oppose increased federal aid for education, the majority need no urging to see the danger of the situation, particularly in states without industry and consequently without much tax income. Even considering the strong support of his party on this issue, however, Stevenson's program reveals a more imaginative and comprehensive approach then has yet appeared in an Eisenhower proposal on education...