Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate two bills remained for consideration. One was the bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act, sponsored in the House by wing-collared Representative Howard Worth Smith of Virginia. The other was the controversial Logan-Walter Bill to subject the rules and decisions of Government agencies to review in the courts (TIME, April 29). Both bills passed in the House with big majorities, both were sidetracked in the Senate. Both were slated for a Presidential veto, if they...
...representative on the Defense Commission, the onetime cutter for Hart Schaffner & Marx had his job cut out for him. In the beginning Management distrusted him instinctively because he was a Labor leader. A. F. of L. distrusted him because he belonged to C. I. 0. The left wing of C. I. O. distrusted him because he was for peace and moderation. On June 12, Hillman took office...
...attackers, and for a day or two there was carnage around Corizza. Then the R. A. F. arrived to bolster the gallant but rickety Greek Air Force. In a few hours, Spitfires and Hurricanes smacked down so many Italians that toward the end of the battle not a Fascist wing dared come across that...
Basically, 150-lb. football is just like varsity football. Its offensive formations usually run out of a single wing (Yale sometimes uses a double wing). Defensively, the Fifties use all the standard lineups: five, six, seven-man, looping, overshifted lines. But, since all players weigh about the same (no more than 154 Ib. the day of the game), there is a premium on precision, speed, timing. A lightweight eleven's downfield blocking is often something even the pros might be proud of. Since Fifties play for fun rather than headlines, their strategies are more daring, more spectacular. Not unusual...
Speaking at the recent opening of a new museum wing, the Honorable Robert Woods Bliss, owner of the mansion, revealed the intention of his wife and himself to make over the property within their lifetime for the purpose of research in fine arts and the humanities...