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head-wing
 n.— «At a working session Wednesday Karen Judd Smith, director of the IIFWP’s Office of U.N. Relations, explained that the organization saw itself as neither right-wing nor left-wing, but rather as balancing different views and pointing the global debate in new directions in a process for which Rev. Moon coined the term “head-wing.”» —“NGO offers fresh perspective on U.N. reform” by Kathleen Hwang World Peace Herald (Washington, D.C.) June 30, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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