Word: faction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...split" allegedly went back to post-VJ days when the Russians occupied northern Korea. The first puppet Pyongyang regime had been a coalition of two kinds of Korean comrades. One faction, led by scholarly Kim Tu Bong, had been trained in the Chinese Communists' stronghold in Yenan. The other, under truculent Kim Il Sung, had a Moscow background...
...faction favored by Russia soon got into the saddle. Korea became a Kremlin show-until Kim Il Sung's army was crushed last fall. Then (according to the Times), China-trained Kim Tu Bong called for peace; he was executed. The Chinese Communists, the story went on, waited for Russia's Korean satellite forces to disintegrate; then they marched in from Manchuria, reversed the Red rout without Russian tanks or other heavy materiel, kicked Kim Il Sung on to the sidelines, took over the show in Korea...
...vote was a reversal for the once high-hopeful, go-fast faction. Led by the French and Italians, the ardent federalists had urged an immediate supranational authority; last summer they seemed to have the support of the most of the Consultative Assembly. But British Socialists adamantly refused to go along. They stood for union, they insisted, but not union now. First, to protect Britain's planned economy, there should be a "functional" approach through which the nations could get together in particular economic, social, cultural and other fields. As an example of what they meant, the British cited...
Four years later, Colgate was looking for a new coach, one faction of the alumni seeking a Colgate man, another hoping to bring in an outsider, possibly a Warner protege. The administration compromised by hiring Earl Abel, an alumnus, as head coach and Jordan as line coach. Jordan was thus placed in the somewhat precarious position of the assistant installing the Warner style of the play. The following year, Andy Kerr succeeded Abel and in the next three years Colgate lost only three games...
...Kremlin Said No. This raised the question of his successor as secretary general of the 700,000-member party. The rat-race for power began as soon as the underlings realized the extent of the chief's illness. The faction urging a tough Communist line pushed their senior member, Andre Marty. But though Marty is a reliable fanatic, he is an inflexible fool save in his specialty: barricade-building and street fighting. Auguste Lecoeur, one of the party's four secretaries, emerged as the compromise choice. Though a graceless militant, he was Thorez' protege and, like Thorez...