Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would lose the one source of his strength-the devotion and faith of the peons. For four years of Cárdenas' administration, he was the brilliant, aggressive and fluid leader of Mexican labor. With the help of Cárdenas he formed and headed the restless, left-wing confederation of workers known as the C.T.M. until shortly after Avila Camacho became President of Mexico. Then Lombardo stepped down with the comment: "I leave office a rich man-rich in the hatred of the bourgeoisie." If he is also frequently feared in Mexico it is because of his influence...
...Maisky did not let them off with a tribute. He duly presented the U.S.S.R.'s second highest decoration, the Order of Lenin, to Wing Commander Henry Neville Gynes Ramsbottom-Isherwood and three other R.A.F. pilots who had flown in Russia. But the Ambassador also had a message from Moscow. It was a message urgent with appeal, warning, a sense of crisis...
...only men in the uniforms of the United Nations are admitted. Established by the American Theater Wing War Service, the Stage Door Canteen represents the joint efforts of the whole entertainment field (stage, cinema, vaudeville, radio, music) to give boys in the services a better time than they could get cruising through town and paying through their noses. With hundreds of people cheerfully providing time, skill and materials, a $20,000 reconstruction job was done on the theater basement for less than...
They had. The legend among oldtime U.S. pilots that Chinese make poor flyers took another body blow. Luke Field's Oriental fledglings had blown a few tires, scraped a few wing tips. But they had had no serious crackups, had been smooth and unhurried in the air. Also they made instructors' eyes pop at the way they could shoot. Diving at a tiny towed target and slamming away with fixed aerial guns at a little patch of white on the ground, the top Chinese gunnery student plunked in 45 out of a possible 200. At the toughest kind...
...March 1 Sir Stafford-a member of the Church of England, whose liberal wing initiated Malvern-said that one reason why Russia was so successfully combating the Nazis was that it had "a seven-day-a-week religion based on idealism and not a one-day-a-week one" like so many nominally Christian countries. In the Methodist Recorder he suggested that the democracies had better infuse religion into their social and political life, and that "there must be a new intention and determination to carry into all the activities of our daily life the fundamental teachings...