Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Similarities. Remember 1952? There was Bob Taft, Mr. Republican, idol of his party's conservative wing, career politician, leading member of the U.S. Senate, a Midwesterner through and through, an outspoken individualist, who had worked long and hard for the nomination, thought he had it won, and was convinced that he deserved it by reason of service to his party and championship of his cause...
From the north wall of the Cow Palace jutted a $250,000 broadcast booth, newly completed for three TV networks. In the south wing, office cubicles for radio, newspaper and magazine reporters took shape. Telephone men installed 36,000 miles of wire, 3,000 phones. Overhead, a 40-ft.-by-100-ft. banner swung into place, bearing a likeness of Lincoln and the legend "Of the people, by the people, and for the people...
...themselves a pleasantly nostalgic reminder of Scandinavia's great conqueror-kings. Long since shorn of all power, the democratic monarchs are universally liked by their subjects and show none of the condescension that surrounds the British throne. Danes seem happy enough that King Frederik lives in a wing of the Amalienborg Palace in downtown Copenhagen rather than in the gloomy, inconvenient Christiansborg Castle where the royal family lived in the past. And they did not revolt when a too-candid picture revealed that the towering (6 ft. 4 in.), rugged King had a chestful of tattoos. Norwegians felt genuinely...
...airfield at night have been deliberately and dangerously blinded by East German spotlights. Their navigational aids, essential in a political corridor only 20 miles wide, have been knocked out by tinsel strewn from Russian planes. Worst of all, MIG fighters have 3 buzzed the commercial planes or escorted them wing tip to wing tip in an effort to un nerve pilots. "Crisis," sighs one Pan Am executive, "is a way of life...
Some suggest that Dirksen wanted to placate the conservative wing of the party. This they argue, gives him the image of a "reasonable" man and allows him to exert strenuous leadership in support of vital, liberal, bi-partisan measures like the Test Ban Treaty and the Civil Rights Bill...