Word: wings
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...White House vault were Eisenhower's standby crisis orders, already initialed by the President, including some that would have imposed martial law. Below Beach's office in the White House's East Wing was the presidential bunker, complete with food, sophisticated communications equipment and torches for cutting out of the twisted rubble. In charge of the bunker was a young officer named William Crowe, later Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
When a blood-hungry mosquito lands on a human forearm -- or, more likely, on the eyelid of a cow, the haunch of a squirrel, the wing of a roosting bird or even the back of a caterpillar -- she goes to work with awesome efficiency. Her slender proboscis, consisting of two sharp and sometimes serrated cutting % tools surrounding a pair of tiny tubes, pierces the skin (and, if necessary, the cloth or feathers protecting it) and finds a capillary, bending to slide into the tiny blood vessel. Down one tube comes her saliva, which deadens sensation and blocks coagulation...
...have faith that they'll come to anagreement," says Lynn Wing DeLacey, a libraryassistant in Lamont Library. "I think we're allbeing patient, but it's difficult because we allneed to have the contract in place...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER (1976). With Gerald Ford facing a challenge from Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination in 1976, Rockefeller served as a lightning rod for conservatives, who had never forgiven him for opposing Barry Goldwater in 1964. Rocky tried to appease the right wing by attacking welfare "cheats." To no avail: Ford's campaign manager described him as the President's "No. 1 problem" in winning the G.O.P. nomination. In November 1975 Rockefeller jumped off the ticket before Ford could push him. Ford replaced him with Kansas Senator Bob Dole, but the ticket lost to Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale...
Immediately after hearing Rabin's message, the Bush Administration moved to reconstruct ties that were badly strained under Rabin's predecessor, Yitzhak Shamir of the right-wing Likud party. Bush dispatched Secretary of State James Baker to meet with the new Israeli administration and arrange for the next round of regional peace talks, scheduled to take place in Rome in a month or two. Given Rabin's pledge to slow construction of settlements in the occupied territories, Israeli and American officials expressed confidence that Washington would approve at least part of the $10 billion in loan guarantees Jerusalem is seeking...