Word: cabal
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...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...
...buffoons who had a place only in the garbage of history." Lin was again condemned for "preaching the rubbish of Confucianism as part of his attempt to restore capitalism in China." It is almost as if the gentle philosopher were still alive and well and leading a counterrevolutionary cabal...
...midst of Watergate, 40 years after the incident occurred, it has a certain sinister plausibility not widely evident in 1933. At the time, the newspapers reported some allegations that a big business cabal had hatched a "plot"-the headlines generally put it in quotes. Its aim was to undo F.D.R.'s power and install a "Secretary of General Affairs" to take effective control of the Executive as a dictator...
...Ponts and J.P. Morgan. The general was offered an extravagant budget - $3,000,000 for starters, with a possible $300 million if necessary - to mobilize an army of 500,000 veterans and lead them to Washington, there to force Roosevelt into accepting "the popular will." The cabal even had a man touring Europe to study the Fascists' success with certain veterans' groups...