Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Mao Tse-tung's own village. Liu and Mao, as sons of prosperous peasant families, attended middle school in Changsha, the largest city in the province, and a hotbed of radical nationalism. Though Mao was some four years older than Liu, they worked together on a left-wing student magazine, and by his early 205 Liu was a veteran of anti-imperialist student demonstrations. In 1920 a Soviet talent scout, encountering Liu in Shanghai, picked him as one of seven promising Chinese students to attend Moscow's newly opened Far Eastern University...
With 17:45 gone in the second quarter, Terrier wing Walt Katuschenko got by Crimson fullback Lanny Keyes and lofted a 25-yard crossing shot overs the arms of Tom Bagnoli to give B.U. a 1-0 lead. Keyes was playing with his right leg heavily taped and with orders to avoid contact. Even so, he was indispensable to the Crimson; Katuschenko was the only man to fool him all afternoon...
Less than five minutes later, inside Bruce Johnstone took a pass down the middle from halfback Bill Rapp and scored the varsity's second goal. Several near-misses followed, before John McIntosh, the Crimson's right wing, curved a corner kick around the goal post, making the score 3 to 1 with 2:01 left in the period...
...offering Algeria a free choice of three alternatives-independence, integration with France, or home rule under France's wing-France's President Charles de Gaulle had conceded the principle of self-determination for which the rebel Front de Libération Nationale claimed to be fighting. The result was that most of the world could no longer see any reason for further bloodshed in Algeria...
Climbing out of his cockpit with a reassuring wave to the old Hurricane circling overhead, Pilot Maguire apologized to the cricketers for damaging their wicket, and joined them at tea in the pavilion. Tea concluded, the game was resumed. Pushed off the playing field, its propeller, undercarriage and one wing broken, Spitfire Sugar Love rested at last on the sidelines-a silent spectator of the way of life it had helped to preserve...