Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brighton, but Prime Minister Harold Wilson, just back from Washington, had a hard time keeping that old Red Flag flying and showing just the right hue. Wilson's major troubles are two: 1) the continuing, alarming economic crisis, and 2) opposition from his own left, or deep-red wing...
...number of its own submarines. He would also like to include some U.S.-based intercontinental Minuteman missiles and West Germany-based Pershing short-range missiles, both to be mix-manned. German influence would be much less than in the original MLF, a welcome feature to the anti-German left wing. The whole setup would be commanded by a vague "single authority," in which all member nations would have a veto...
...nonsense"), called for a cease-fire in South Viet Nam, opened telegrams of congratulations from Hubert Humphrey and Earl Warren. Best reading of all was a birthday check for $17,500, raised by the dwindling Socialist faithful. Thomas said he would divvy up the money among his favorite left-wing causes: "It won't last long, because every organization I'm connected with is going bankrupt...
...forced to admit that, even if William Scranton had been nominated at San Francisco, he would not have run much better than Goldwater. Right-wing zealots and Midwestern conservatives, foiled for the seventh straight time in as many national conventions, would not have done much for the young Governor from Hotchkiss and Yale. It is conceivable that the Republican candidate might have won fewer electoral votes than Governor George Wallace could have...
...refer to "the techniques of distortion and innuendo used by the radical right to question the loyalty of many patriotic Americans." I don't see how your approach differs from the distortion practiced by some hypothetical extremist writing that "The American left was united against Senator Goldwater. Prominent left wing groups such as the Communist Party and the Socialist Workers Party were especially vehement. The ways in which the left is trying to convert America to a Communist state are ..." That hypothetical extremist would have precisely as good, and as bad, a case as you do; after all, the Communist...