Word: wings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algiers, for nearly a week, the right-wing press had been working on the emotions of the city's French population by preaching against Pflimlin as an apostle of "abandonment," because he was known to favor negotiations with the rebel Algerian National Liberation Front. Then came the explosive word that Algerians had executed three French prisoners in reprisal for the execution of three rebels in Algiers' jail. Driven by uncontrollable fury, thousands of colons surged into the streets of Algiers shouting "The army to power!" and "Vive De Gaulle!" (see below). They were quieted only when General Massu...
...commented that he certainly would not object to additional contributions from these sources, but that the estimates were not yet complete. Sound-proofing the dining hall is a part of the large scale physical revisions planned for Leverett House which will include the construction of a new wing...
...Cold North Wind. The fact was, as the Daily Telegraph suggested, that there had been no essential change in the man whom Britain's left-wing Cartoonist David Low once labeled "Old Inflexible." The change that Europeans saw in him was more correctly a change in themselves. At the time of the Paris conference, European public opinion demanded a summit meeting-at least half-convinced that the Russians sincerely wanted a general settlement. But in the weeks preceding Copenhagen, the Russians 1) stalled over the ground rules for summit talks, 2) announced that they no longer felt bound...
...saturnine dandy with the "Florentine profile." Van Cliburn is a gangling (6 ft. 4 in., 165 Ibs.), snub-nosed, mop-haired boy out of Kilgore, as Texan as pecan pie. Instead of medals, he carried a well-thumbed Bible; instead of doeskin gloves, a single dress shirt, a plastic wing collar given to him by a friend, a ratty grey Shetland sweater that often showed under his dress jacket when he took his bows...
Detachments from three different stations roared deafeningly down DeWolfe St. and Memorial Drive, converging on Mill St. and the south wing of Lowell House. From a fourth floor suite, smoke issued threateningly. But this was to be no day for glory...