Word: wings
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Menachem Begin came early to his Zionist zeal. He was born in a Polish town where his father was a leader in the Jewish community. After earning a law degree at the University of Warsaw, he became national commander of Betar, a right-wing paramilitary group that advocated the violent ouster of the British from Palestine. When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, he fled to Lithuania, leaving behind his parents, who died under the Nazis. A year later, he joined the anti-German Free Polish Army and served with a unit that was attached to British forces in Palestine...
...little has changed in the department's American wing, according to some department members. The department still lacks a senior scholar in modern American history...
Contributing to the department's paralysis is an ideological battle being waged in Robinson over the direction of the American wing, say some department members...
...nation's biggest states, and went on to win 10 primaries. Nonetheless, the spirit of 1976 may already be working for the Democrats. As a senior Bush campaign adviser said last week, "Everybody knows that the way to defeat an incumbent President is with a challenge from the ideological wing of the party...
...already gained a spot near Dan Quayle in the 1996 starting gate. "Reagan dusted Ford up, but it didn't prevent him from winning it the next time," an Administration official says. "Pat is rolling the dice and figures he could become the heir apparent to the conservative wing...