Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Threat. In Ceylon, the tenuous, left-wing coalition government has for weeks been at the capricious mercy of the Buddhist clergy; last week the Prime Minister, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, lost a vote of confidence and dissolved Parliament, requiring new elections that are sure to be tumultuous. In Japan, Soka Gakkai, a new Buddhist sect claiming converts at the rate of 100,000 families a month, has launched its own political party, which, says its chairman, "naturally aims at ruling the nation." In Burma, an attempt to set up a Buddhist thearchy has led to chaos and left-wing military dictatorship...
Leftist Deputies charged that the mine had been freshly placed by rightist terrorists. The rightists replied by censuring Papandreou for 1) permitting a mass meeting on a former minefield, and 2) failing to curb Red organization and activity. Right-wing and left-wing Deputies came to blows while Papandreou lit a cigarette and sat back, seemingly safe in the middle. But the aftermath of the explosion implied a different meaning: under Papandreou's center government, the Communists have enjoyed an ominous revival in Greece...
...Premature." Some bullfight. The frente has split into several factions. One Conservative band consistently criticizes Valencia's policies, and a left-wing offshoot of the Liberal Party has even thrown its support to ex-Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, whose National Popular Alliance Party went from six to 28 seats after the March congressional elections. "We shall take the government by fair means or foul," vows Rojas, whose followers have taken to wearing a Nazi-like party uniform...
...minute mark of the over-time session, Harvard came within a whisker of beating the team which many feel is the best in the East. Crimson wing Kenny Burnes' shot from center ice carromed high into the air off the Terrier defense and fell at the feet of B.U. goalie Jack Ferreria...
...enforce an old rule which prohibits any organization from soliciting funds or membership on campus, and makes participation in illegal off-campus political activity, such as sit-ins, subject to University discipline. Student political leaders claimed that President Kerr and the California Regents were submitting to pressure by right-wing groups which resented student civil rights projects in the San Francisco area...