Word: wings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite this, there are plenty of leaders who, though fond of Barry, do not like the situation. They are distressed by the enthusiasm shown for him by such extreme right-wing groups as the John Birch Society. But there are some indications that that very enthusiasm is bringing many of the extremists into the regular Republican Party-and in so doing they make the party no more conservative, but rather become more moderate themselves...
Wilson's two most influential and eminent economic advisers would have no official role in his government. Nicholas Kaldor, 55, and Thomas Balogh, 57, are both Hungarian-born and are known as "those evil Hungarians," nicknamed respectively "Buda" and "Pest." Balogh, a mercurial left-wing Oxford economist, near neighbor of Wilson in suburban Hampstead, has long been the dominant influence in his economic thinking. As a quid pro quo for restrictions on wage raises, Buda and Pest have convinced Wilson that he needs control over corporate profits and dividends and a tax on capital. Officially, Labor intends only...
Wilson's closest adviser is R.H.S. Grossman, 55, a lively left-wing will-o'-the-wisp who was a don at Oxford's New College when Wilson was an undergraduate there. Wilson, who meets all his other associates at his House of Commons office, often discusses policies late into the night at Grossman's house in shabby Vincent Square. Dick Crossman drew up Gaitskell's social security program; and in the Wilson government he would head a newly created Ministry of Higher Education. It might better be called the Ministry for Expanding Education. Aware...
...some species the tufts are on the beetles' wing covers, in others on the insects' foreheads. The hairs are saturated with a glandular secretion that the females find impossible to resist...
...many cities. March leaders were offended by officials at the Department of State who delivered them a lecture rather than offering to discuss United States policy. But McGeorge Bundy assured the leaders that the President was glad the students had come. They helped to offset the vocal right wing, Bundy said...