Word: factionalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heading the bandwagon faction last week was His Highness the Maharaja of Bikaner. Bikaner, an expert shot who has decked his halls with heads and skins of 75 species of game shot in twelve countries, has decided that the best way to save his own skin is to team up with the Congress Party. Last week, when obstructionist highnesses were plugging for a united stand against the anti-princely Congress, Bikaner dramatically walked out, later announced that he was sending his representative to sit in the Constituent Assembly when it next meets, on April 28. By session...
...unique throughout the college. Forced to meet the needs of both the concentrator preparing for graduate work and the liberal arts man filling a distribution requirement, the department must cater to both these interests in a plant already operating at full capacity. The result is satisfactory to neither faction...
Rejecting "any alliance with totalitarian groups--either communist or fascists" the A.D.A. will bring to the H.L.U. an issue which has occupied the spotlight in its inner councils for the past term, and which resulted in violent debates between the A.Y.D. faction and its opponents...
...According to Hercules, My Shipmate, by Robert Graves, the Golden Fleece was a bone of contention in divine power politics. Helle and Phryxus, tools of the "old religion" faction, stole it to spite Zeus, and Phryxus took it to Colchis. Jason, who was pro-Zeus, won it back...
...some airborne rebels came down in neighboring Colombia and others surrendered, Venezuelans learned what the shooting was about. A faction of hot-blooded Army impatients (who had helped put Betancourt and his Action Democrática Party in power only a year ago) wanted a reshuffle. Their chief objection: the leftist tone of the moderate Betancourt Government...