Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herky" Herskovits and Dick Gifford, also two former Freshman starts, have a good chance to fill the outside wing positions left by Mendel and Page. But as yet the biggest difficulty of all is still unsolved, namely the lack of fullbacks. As Carr points out it takes four fullbacks to give any college team defensive strength. So far only two men have been found with enough skill to fill this position...
Under John's wing was his five-year-old sister Julie. "I had to smack her-not hard, mind you-two or three times," he confided. "She was forever losing her life belts after drill. A bit of a mess she is-and bossy...
...Almost at the same moment as we bombed I felt a thump, and the aircraft lurched to the right. A pom-pom shell had gone through the starboard wing. Then another shell hit the same wing between the fuselage and the engine. They were firing pretty well at point-blank range. It was all over in a few seconds. The navigator called out. 'O.K. finish.' Then we turned away...
...life imprisonment would be the severest penalty meted out to the ex-leaders of France. In 1871, after France's previous defeat, Frenchmen vented their feelings in violence. In that year the strong-man Government of Louis-Adolphe Thiers was afraid to stay in Paris, where the left-wing Commune soon seized power. The Government and the Commune executed between them more than 40,000 people. Among the Commune's victims were two hapless generals, Claude-Martin Lecomte and Clément Thomas, shot as "enemies of the people"; Archbishop Darboy of Paris and Curé Deguerry...
Objections to the bill were soon heard. Loudest came from Congress' left wing - Jerry Voorhis of California, Wisconsin's Bob La Follette. They thought it coddled profits instead of taxing them; they talked of boosting the top bracket rate from 40% to 82%. They also disliked Choice i, on the grounds that it would let slip the most profitable corporations. But their biggest objection was to the 20% depreciation allowance and the Vinson-Trammell repeal. Calling the latter "bribes" to induce manufacturers to do their duty under the Defense program, they would have preferred to hand business...