Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through the White House. Presidential Secretary Ann Whitman glanced around her desk to make certain everything was ready; ushers and doormen snapped to attention. Down in an elevator from his living quarters, out through a rear door and across the Rose Garden to his office in the west wing came Dwight Eisenhower. The President of the U.S. was working back into a full-time schedule-and hardly had he sat down at his desk than the babble of speculation about his political intentions grew even louder...
...certain domestic programs." And with that muted trumpet blast, the Administration turned away from three years of stern domestic budget-trimming to heed the clamor for some home-front expansion. The State Department, Ike said, needs an $89 million raise "to strengthen" its staff, to build a new wing on its main building in Washington and new embassies and consulates abroad. The new federal school-construction program (see EDUCATION) requires a substantial down payment on the $2 billion to be spent over the next five years, and the National Science Foundation needs a 156% raise (to $41 million) to finance...
...around whose name has swirled the most extraordinary fracas seen in any U.S. church for a long time. In 1949 Long Island's Bishop James P. De Wolfe fired William Melish's father, John Howard Melish, as rector of Trinity, because he would not curb the left-wing activities of his son and assistant pastor. But the vestry and congregation accepted the younger Melish to stay on as acting pastor. By last week, however, a majority of the vestry (now mostly composed of new members) had changed its stand and decided to fire Melish...
...Right-Wing Columnist David Lawrence argued that Ike's reference to the danger of an "unexpected" change in governments in the U.S. could refer to more than the risk of a President's death in office. Contended Lawrence: "Whenever he says he doesn't intend to run again, the news will come as a shock . . . The 'unexpected' will then develop with intensity. American leadership will suddenly become uncertain and perhaps frustrated. [This] type of change would produce far more damage to world affairs in general and to the economic situation in the U.S. National policies...
Usually, the biggest problem in forming a freshman squad comes in training T-formation high school players to handle varsity coach Lloyd Jordan's version of the single-wing. Ted Metropoules, captain of next year's varsity, made the point: "We were mostly follows who had never played the single-wing before...