Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...working class have been arbitrarily reduced," bawled Communist Waldeck Rochet. "We are only ten Deputies for 4,000,000 voters." From somewhere in the rear of the great half-shell that houses the National Assembly, a voice shouted back: "That's ten too many." A right-wing Deputy's ironic reference to "how times have changed" brought Premier Michel Debre himself to his feet. "One thing has not changed," roared the testy Debre. "At the tribune stands a man who recalls the worst aspects of the Fourth Republic -and that...
Teetering on a one-vote majority in the Chamber of Deputies, Italy's Christian Democratic Premier Amintore Fanfani has often cast longing eyes toward the 84 left-wing Socialist seats controlled by wily, 67-year-old Pietro Nenni...
...strong Communist Party. Nenni condemned the Russian smashing of the Hungarian revolt, and privately he calls the Reds "black beasts." With this in mind, Fanfani designed his semi-Socialist program partly to tempt the Nenni Socialists into part-time support of his government. Alarmed, the right-wing Christian Democratic faction of ex-Premier Guiseppe Pella warned Fanfani that they would leave the party if they were "betrayed by this unnatural association with Marxism...
...Evil Tendency." In Indonesia, left-wing groups that usually support the Reds had been ecstatic in their welcome of Tito, but Indonesia's local Communists, mindful of Tito's heretical brand of Marxism, alternately tried to ignore Tito's presence, belittle it, or by indirection attack it. Peking's press and radio denounced him as a "running dog of imperialism," and headlined the claim: DRUNKENNESS IN YUGOSLAVIA RANKS SECOND IN WORLD. After Tito had left Bali, the Red-lining Indonesian newspaper Bintang Timur accused him of "carrying out a Western mission...
...salesmen run into surprisingly little sales resistance. In the old days, before the show-business community decided that honest sheets such as Variety deserved a little support, Variety salesmen were forced to practice the hard-sell, often found it even harder to collect. Many a buck-and-wing team was trailed from Times Square to Peoria before its bill was paid...