Word: cabal
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Later, the Pope met with and expressed support for a group of conservative bishops from Haiti--a cabal appointed by the church and long implicated in the suffering of the Haitian people...
...This cabal is crashed by the narrator, Richard Papen, a penniless transfer student who had taken some Greek. He is as close as the book comes to an objective center, but the device gets shaky because Richard is a facile, silly liar, boasting about an imaginary family oil well. He will do anything to be accepted by these sophisticates. Anything...
...electoral experience but rich in patriotic fervor -- to try to bankroll his way into the White House as a high- minded alternative to an unpopular President and the usual band of two- faced out-of-power politicians. In the Frank Capra classic, Tracy falls under the thumb of a cabal of back-room bosses before reclaiming his virtue in a dramatic radio address, in which he confesses, "I sold out my ideals to a gang of corrupt politicians...
...staff also charges that CCH is some sort of conservative cabal, directed by Peninsula and AALARM. But it's not the same as Peninsula or AALARM; some Council members of Peninsula don't feel compelled to call Gomes to the carpet...
...what about this "Crimson group" business? This phrase is used repeatedly to refer to The Crimson, its reporters and its editors. It seems to suggest a sort of conspiracy, a cabal--some "group" that has taken over The Crimson...