Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industries under the shadow of the Red Flag. To imagine that present socialist policies, even though they still bear the mark of middle-of-the-road politics, will continue under a larger parliamentary majority is akin to living like Alice in Wonderland. There is little doubt that the left wing of the Labor party will eventually rise and demand complete control of industry...
Reunification, of course, appeals to Germans of all political persuasions, but some German leaders are concerned lest other aspects of the new national consciousness be exaggerated into an appeal to the now-dormant far-right wing by politicians vying for votes. One of the concerned is President Heinrich Lübke, who occupies a position above party politics. Dedicating a memorial at the site of the former Belsen concentration camp last week, he sternly advised politicians to avoid stirring up "the real or suspected dark side of our nation...
...Taking Wing. The West applauded Bourguiba's effort to begin an Arab-Israeli dialogue, but Israel's Arab neighbors responded with a bellow of rage. Two months ago, Bourguiba had infuriated Middle East Arabs by rallying North Africa to reject Nasser's campaign against West Germany. Now Bourguiba's Arab critics were angrier than ever. Government radios, from Baghdad to Cairo, blasted Bourguiba as a traitor, a madman "who should be locked in an asylum," and as a Judas "who should be immediately executed." Mobs blossomed in the streets of half a dozen Arab capitals...
...Tunis. Tossing the "madman" epithet right back at Cairo, the mob paraded with banners reading "Palestinians recognize in Bourguiba their real defender" and "A firing squad for Nasser!", then broke through police lines to stone the Iraqi embassy and smash down the door at the Egyptian. Ambassadors took wing like homing pigeons. Egypt huffily ordered its envoy out of Tunisia, and in a single day Tunisian diplomats to Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad arrived back in Tunis...
...pure wool. The thoughts of this playwriting youth are the fashionably wrong wrong thoughts about Nuclear Apocalypse, the Bitch Mother, the Castrated Male, the Homosexual Martyr, and the Dehumanization of Everyone. The result is one of those off-bleat stupefactions that make the modern stage look like the queerest wing of a nuthouse...