Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machine guns, the noise of troops tramping through the streets. News spread that Fort Copacabana had revolted, was shelling Rio's other forts and the Ministry of War. Artillery Lieutenant Siqueira Campos became the first hero of the Revolution of 1922 by dropping a shell squarely into a wing of the Ministry of War, in the heart of the city, six miles from Copacabana...
Lord Woolton is a Tory and the left-wing press answered the Minister of Food by headlining "WOOLTON MUST GO!" The tabloid Daily Mirror attacked the Government by sending its columnist Cassandra out with a full wallet to gorge himself in London restaurants where rationing does not apply. Wrote replete Cassandra peevishly: "Within five days I have eaten at least seven times my weekly meat ration, five times my butter ration. . . . Not content with this debauch I have swallowed saddle of hare in wine sauce, lobster Thermidor, the inevitable (if you live that way) caviar, Hungarian pork goulash, quails...
International House is coeducational, houses men in one wing and girls in another. Eligible as members are foreign students and U. S. graduate students in New York City colleges and universities. Of its 1,500 resident and nonresident members, about a third are foreigners. U. S. students like to live there because it is friendly and cheap (average room rent: $7 a week), looks after their health, holds frequent dances and is as good as a world tour. There they may meet Icelanders, Indians, Liberians, South Africans, Turks, Swedes, Japanese, Chinese, Swiss, South Sea Islanders...
...much economic and social as religious, like the Crusades and the Reformation. All of them were determined that the Church should assume just such a leadership in post-war reconstruction. And all of them were determined that that leadership should come from the Liberal rather than the Conservative wing...
...People's Convention is a group of trade unionists and left wing affiliates in England who are demanding a "people's government" to take the place of the Churchill administration, an immediate peace with Germany involving no reparations or exchange of territory, and who ask for liberation of colonies and subject peoples...