Word: wings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...known as "partial-birth" abortions. It is the position of the Harvard Republican Club that President Clinton's veto was both a revolting and extraordinarily callous attempt to pander to the far-left and extremist abortion proponents. This pandering serves only to protect Clinton from backlash from the left wing of the Democratic Party, rather than to protect the unborn from an egregiously gruesome form of death...
...lobby the administration, to fund student groups and to foster community via campus-wide social events. The council functioned best when it took stances on issues which enjoyed widespread student support--issues like increased Crimson Cash, a 24-hour library and Core reform. But a cadre of left-wing ideologues captured dozens of seats this fall, mainly in uncompetitive races and hijacked the council with activist platforms unrepresentative of real student concerns...
...Ethiopia and, immediately after the bombing, Oklahoma City. The second half of Graham's autobiography, Rebel with a Cause, recounts with obvious relish various acts of charitable and evangelical derring-do, from dodging P.L.O. cannon fire while aiding an evangelical church in Beirut to training chaplains for the right-wing contra insurrection during the Nicaraguan civil war to jockeying a disabled plane into a remote village in Turkey. "I got it both ways," he once told GQ magazine. "When I die I'll go immediately to the presence of God, and yet in life I had a blast." Samaritan...
...Evangelical Studies at Illinois' Wheaton College, but rather "a network of networks." During his extended prime, Billy spoke for many of these. If his gradual journey from a narrowly exclusive vision of Christianity to the embrace of almost anybody willing to accept Jesus alienated the movement's Fundamentalist wing, it brought untold numbers into the fold. It resonated particularly well during the prosperous post-World War II years, with the emphasis on American unity...
...moderate wing of the party finally has had the good sense to expose the hypocrisy of that position. Once the issue of life is gone, no one in good conscience can support antiabortion legislation that hurts the poor alone. Either you believe a fetus is human or you don't. If most Republicans have their doubts, they should have the freedom of choice--to take a more liberal stance on abortion...