Word: cabal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moderate Group. The Communists and their man in the troika, Premier Vasco dos Santos Gonçalves, were very much on the defensive. Gonçalves was clinging desperately to his position, ignoring demands that he resign. But the cabal of officers intent upon ousting him has generated such impressive support that Gonçalves' days seemed numbered. Melo Antunes' moderate manifesto, with its call for a gradual, pluralistic approach to socialism, had won the backing of a majority in the armed forces -some estimates went as high as 85%. Just about every officer of any consequence...
...Glikes] is trying to set himself up as a rejected suitor... He's living out his fantasy life in The New York times." Goodwin's theory in this publication scandal is that the whole thing has been cooked up against him and Doris buy a New York "literary cabal." He is defensive because he most feel somewhat responsible for Kearns's most. He says that some of the news and editorial accounts have been aimed more at him than at Doris, and be does not like the facile, tabloid image that he has gotten as the swarthy manipulator...
...weaving together the myriad strands of evidence into a cohesive case that the five former political associates of Richard Nixon conspired to cover up the facts of the Watergate bugging and burglary. His voice rising and falling and his arms chopping the air for emphasis, Neal described an illegal cabal "on a massive scale by the highest officials of the land," involving perjury and the payment of nearly $500,000 to buy the silence of the Watergate burglars. He concluded: "One red cent paid to keep somebody from talking, whether it went for attorneys' fees or for a haircut...
...Kenmore cabal scored in the fourth inning, after Dwight Evans walked and Deron Johnson broke up a no-hitter with a looper to right. Rick Burleson plated Evans with a smash single off the wall, to make it 4-1. In the top half of the frame, Powell's home run had given the Birds a 4-0 bulge...
Morse could get away with being the perpetually angry man because he was always clean. He was nobody's man; he pursued a career that other politicians can only fantasize. He would not make a deal, he would not trade votes, he would not join a cabal. He switched from a Republican to a Democrat, but he was at home in neither party. While his col leagues rebuked him for being a gadfly, he taunted them for being "phony lib-g erals." "A true liberal can't limit himself to a few areas," he declared. "He I must...