Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Socialists and Communists are really brothers at heart, both working for the same objectives. In their candid moments, Communists have always considered democratic socialists and trade unionists dangerous antagonists, for they are living proof that societies can reform themselves without revolution and terror. Said Gaitskell with satisfaction: "Even left-wing members cannot have had any but the most ghastly experience...
...NATO. Other nations have reservations about grandiose plans to offer aid to underdeveloped countries through NATO. Said one French official: "For these nations, NATO is a soldiers' club. Any government of an underdeveloped country accepting aid from it would have come in for heavy attack from its left-wing opposition...
Open Tentflaps. Ike's outline of Republican principles was calculated to appeal to almost everyone and to offend hardly anyone, so much so that it provoked Washington Post's left-wing Democratic Cartoonist Herblock into one of the season's sharpest needlings of G.O.P. generalities (see cut). Among Ike's points: ¶ "The ultimate values of mankind are spiritual. These values include liberty, human dignity, opportunity, and equal rights and justice." ¶ "More jobs and better jobs, a flourishing agriculture, happier living for every family, peace and plenty for all people−these call...
...Grumble. As expected, some church leaders grumbled about immorality. Laborite Harold Wilson taunted: "Now Britain's strength, freedom and solvency apparently depend on the proceeds from a squalid raffle." The left-wing New Statesman and Nation labeled Macmillan's proposal "the birth of the windfall state." But the august London Times defended the new bond, and so did the Financial Times...
Also (5) a building for the Behavioral Sciences; (6) an office and classroom building for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; (7) a new wing on the Mallinckrodt Chemical Laboratory; (8) a Graduate School of Education building...