Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quarrel with the Republican right wing is a matter of priorities as well as ideals. Javits is convinced that the conservatives' fealty to states' rights "all too often means in practice denouncing the Federal Government for trying to do too much?while in effect sustaining the right of the states to do nothing at all." Yet, he argues, "there is much to be done that, in the terms of Lincoln's principle of government, the people cannot do for themselves and that a people's government must lead in undertaking...
When Labor had a perilous three-vote majority in Commons, Prime Min ister Harold Wilson found it easy enough to keep his party in line. But the urgency of party unity faded when Wil son won his 97-man margin in the March elections. Right-wing Laborites began criticiz ing him for failure to halt inflation or push toward the Common Market. The party's left wing hacked at Wilson for not nationalizing steel, for taking too tough an attitude toward the seamen's wage demands in Britain's five-week-old dock strike, and for backing...
...worth more than I paid for it." Brundage, who has been collecting since 1912, has acquired more than 5,000 objects, whose origins range from Japan to Iran. As he opened the 12-ft-high bronze doors that lead to the Museum's 100,000-sq.-ft. new wing, he sported in his lapel the grey rosette on gold representing Japan's Order of the Sacred Treasure first class, earned for both his role in the Olympics and his patronage of Japanese...
...palace redecorated in Empire style for himself and Josephine. The day of his divorce from her, Napoleon returned to the Trianon, spent the night there alone. His remorse was short lived: he was soon back with his new Queen, Marie-Louise, each with a separate wing. Last King of France to reside there was the bourgeois Louis Philippe, who raised a chuckle when he widened the bed in the Queen's chamber by a foot (overleaf) so that he and Queen Marie-Amélie could snuggle in together...
...Taylor doughtily goes through the motions of Doris-appreciation without losing his grip. As a combination scientific whiz kid and loverboy, Rod invents an anti-gravity device, heads a U.S. space center for NASA, goes home after launch to a more or less circular pad with a guest wing as roomy as a Holiday Inn. One unit is decorated in passionate red, and the whole house is the sort of marshmallow dream that Hollywood merchants manufacture year after year to spoon glamour into the dull, grey life of your average mortgage-holder...