Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their patrimony as a reproach. The largest and most permanent of the shifting New Left groups is the Students for a Democratic Society (some 30,000 members by rough count), whose president changes every year, and whose members once even considered abolishing the office. Originally part of the left-wing but anti-Communist League for Industrial Democracy, the S.D.S. soon began to strike out on its own. In 1962, at a meeting at Port Huron, Mich., 43 representatives of more than a dozen universities and colleges adopted a lengthy manifesto attacking the quality of American life and the direction...
...squad boosted its 5-0 lead when wing Tom Choquette scored on a gallop from midfield. Choquette later assisted in the final try in a passing combination with Steve Zeitlin just after Boston scored its only tally...
...open defiance of him. The King so far has refused to endorse the dictatorship and is under arrest at his country palace. There has been a general suspension of constitutional guarantees, and Army leaders have resorted to intimidating shows of arms. A minority of extreme right-wing leaders clearly is consolidating its power...
...Love, Not War. Many left-wing Americans-including Senior Socialist Norman Thomas-refused to throw in with King, Carmichael & Co. Because the pitch of their protest made it seem that Hanoi was innocent of any aggressive role in the war, even the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy refused to take part, though SANE Co-Chairman Dr. Benjamin Spock spoke at the New York demonstration...
...soldiers. Today, Brazil's military organization is run by a bright, intellectual class of officers who are strongly influenced by the tenets of Comtian and Spencerian Positivism.* In a land that is being torn by a struggle between tradition and modernization, the army-frequently accused of being right wing-is actually a major vehicle for reform...