Word: wings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Foster hurried out the front door of the White House with the guests, headed toward some secret rendezvous in the West Wing, where they run the world. "Takes some adjusting," I muttered, mindful of the problems over appointments and the firing of the Travel Office personnel. "You're telling me," he replied with a rueful laugh. Remember, he was reminded, that trouble is the main business of Washington. Without controversy the city is out of work. Keep laughing. But he didn't -- as we now know...
...travelers do their best to seek out infamous mayhem. Which may explain the explosion of tourism in Northern Ireland, where the 24-year feud between Protestants and Catholics offers a kind of terrorism theme park. So great is the demand that Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political wing, keeps running out of its "freedom map" of West Belfast, which pinpoints the cemetery where hunger striker Bobby Sands is buried, British observation posts, and the "peace line," a concrete barricade separating the city's Catholic and Protestant districts. Tourists who follow the route can watch young boys from both...
Before her time at the Post, Nelson worked as a freelance writer for a number of notable left-wing publications, including The Village Voice. She considers herself to have earned her left-wing credentials by protesting and writing about encroachments on civil liberties...
Brock's central thesis is that Anita Hill misrepresented herself as a quiet woman, impelled by a sense of duty to keep an unworthy designate off the nation's highest court. She was instead, he claims, a rabid ideologue and the pawn of influential left-wing groups who felt that Clarence Thomas' conservatism rendered him unworthy of Thurgood Marshall's mantle...
There are legitimate, bothersome examples of p.c. intolerance on both sides of the political spectrum. But when you start getting into guilt by association, you are beyond conventional p.c. of the left or right and back into the more virulent form of right-wing p.c. known as McCarthyism...