Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Security Act of 1947 took away the autonomy of the Army and Navy, created a separate Air Force and put all three under the wing of a newly created Department of Defense. The most workable plan for a single-service Armed Forces of the U.S. would strip away the three service Secretaries, place U.S. military policy completely in the hands of the civilian Secretary of National Defense. He would be aided by an Under Secretary and by Assistant Secretaries for procurement, personnel, research, public affairs, etc., much as is the Secretary of Defense today...
Seven hundred and fifty-three freshman had defects revealed by the bite-wing dental X-ray. Of these, 135 had defects in urgent need of treatment if they were to avoid loss of teeth. All 1030 freshmen X-rayed received letters from the department indicating whether they needed treatment and the urgency of their case. About 70 members of the class failed to have X-rays or had defective ones...
...heart of the dispute was the stubborn fact that President Pedro Aramburu's acts and attitudes toward the Roman Catholic Church pleased almost no one. The proclerical wing of Argentine opinion, which threw its considerable weight against Perón only after he had imprudently attacked the church, felt defrauded: Aramburu did not restore the church's prerogatives, such as religious education in public schools. So heated have ardent Roman Catholics become that one priest recently cried: "Never has there been such a rift between the church and the government...
...official" status of Catholic papers confuses not only non-Catholics but many of the faithful themselves. In the view of Catholic critics, some hotly partisan Catholic papers, e.g., Brooklyn's right-wing Tablet (circ. 119,893), seem content to let readers believe-as many do-that editorial tributes to Joe McCarthy and Senator Jenner of Indiana are church-inspired...
...editorial in the right-wing Our Sunday Visitor, published in Huntington, Indiana (national circ. 749,995), attacked world federalism. The liberal Davenport, Iowa Catholic Messenger, whose relatively small circulation (19,800) reaches 43 states, reprinted the editorial, and alongside, almost paragraph for paragraph, it ran excerpts from Pope Pius XII's statements in direct rebuttal...