Word: faction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walsh lashed out at the liberal faction of city politics before the testimony. "An organized political union is trying to ruin me," he said, calling his term of office "26 months of a reign of terror." This "reign of terror," according to Walsh, included prank phone calls in the middle of the night, protesters surrounding his office and threats of having his house set on fire. "I'm going to sue the Cambridge Tenants' Union," he said...
...Jack Kemp: Multi-flex. The famous former Buffalo Bills quarterback sees himself as the only candidate flexible enough to unify the three feuding factions of the Republican Party: the Reaganites, the New Right, and the Robertson Evangelicals. Unfortunately, no one seems to appreciate his flexibility--including most voters in each faction...
Khalis, however, was not speaking with the full backing of his alliance's membership. Pir Sayed Ahmad Gailani, leader of the most important moderate guerrilla faction, criticized Khalis for failing to clear his statement with other mujahedin leaders. Gailani told TIME he favored talking with Cordovez. That way, he said, "at least he will know what our position is and pass it on" to the Soviets. Gailani's rebuff of a fellow rebel may be part of the jockeying for position in a post-Soviet power structure...
...emphasize the clever stylization of the piece simply because I realize that the more creative journalist must regularly hear complaints from some one or other offended faction screaming, "It's not true!" To such denials Mr. Morris might rightly respond, "It's not meant to be perfectly true, only pointed in its essence toward a truth. That is, I am employing the device of hyperbole in order to engage the reader in a daringly venomous attack against the materialism of Dade County." This attack, unfortunately, amounts only to wasted space on your op-ed page, for, both in its reasoning...
...Egypt wouldn't accept control of the overpopulated, impoverished, faction-ridden Gaza Strip if you paid them...