Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bloodiest victim of the purge was Baltimore's Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro, who as national committeeman wielded the most power in a power-weak, faction-racked state organization. As the kingmaker who nudged Tydings into the race with Mahoney, D'Alesandro was booted out as committeeman, spanked again by being ignored when Baltimore delegates to the national convention were selected...
...impulsive householder off on vacation has lived to regret. Ever since Sir Anthony Eden, in the rosy aftermath of the Summit Conference at Geneva last July, issued such an invitation to Soviet Bigwigs Khrushchev and Bulganin, the chill British air has been filled with regrets and forebodings. A powerful faction in the Tory Party, led by Lord Salisbury, Eden's own longtime guide and mentor, was against the idea almost from the beginning. Others joined in after Khrush and Bulgy made their circus tour of India and Burma, spraying gratuitous insults at Britain. Snapped that professional angry man Lord...
...boom headed for a sharp upturn or a slide? For months the question has split official Washington. One faction, which includes President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisers, worried that business was slowing down, kept a wary eye on such soft spots as autos and farm prices. But the Federal Reserve Board leaned in the opposite direction, convinced that the boom was still picking up speed so fast that it might get out of hand. Last week the Federal Reserve governors decided it was time to put more checks on credit and industrial expansion. With a flourish...
...murdered in the Tower-drowned, as a matter of gruesome legend, in a butt of malmsey wine. And while he waits for the aging king (Hardwicke) to die "and leave the world for me to bustle in," the "bottled spider" can teasingly tongue-tie the opposing faction ("Cannot a plain man live?") and make a lot of pious tut and pother ("I thank my God for my humility") at the deathbed of the king...
...seem to think is the native speech of proper Bostonians. He eats "Vit-Health" sandwich-spread that his mother sends him. He is courageous and dedicated, but his eager virtue turns into fumbling crime. His idealistic dabbling in Indo-Chinese politics-he furnishes a plastic bomb to a local faction-becomes real blood on his shoes. "I must get a shine before I see the Minister," says Pyle, after his bomb explodes, killing the wrong people...