Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democrats. "Over the years we Republicans have had our spats, but look at our opponents. They are hopelessly split -right down the middle. One wing attacks states' rights-the other defends them. At one extreme is the wing whose campaigns were largely settled in Southern primaries held weeks ago. At the other extreme is the stronger wing dominated by political radicals. These self-styled liberals are the ones who really challenge sane, sound, forward-looking government in the U.S. . . . You and I know the irresistible impulse of the political radical. It is to squander money-your money. Republicans practice...
...Senate, speaking for a Michigan congressional candidate: "If the Republican Party were ever reincarnated into a homing pigeon, no matter where it was released in the universe, whether from a jet plane or in outer space, it would go directly home to Wall Street without a flutter of the wing...
Arizona: In the campaign most like a personal grudge fight, Democratic Governor Ernest McFarland, 64, runs a fifty-fifty chance of getting revenge upon dashing, right-wing Republican Barry Goldwater, 49 (TIME, Sept. 29), who upset Senator McFarland in 1952 and thus ended his career as Senate majority leader...
California: The G.O.P. civil war promises Democratic victory: latest polls show once-popular liberal Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight, 61, trailing considerably behind his Senate opponent, lesser-known northern California Congressman Clair Engle, 47, right-wing Democrat...
...this era of wing-footed Prime Ministers, who find it easier to pop over in a plane than to telephone. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had been in and out of London on several occasions, and always welcome. Thus nobody expected anything untoward when an equally respected figure, West German President Theodor Heuss, 74, arrived to pay a call. But Heuss also happened to be the first German head of state invited to Britain on a ceremonial visit since Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1907, and he came as a symbol of the German nation. In the intervening 51 years Britons and Germans...