Word: foes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acting as though he had not a Democratic foe in the world, he threw all his darts at Republicans, declared that the Eisenhower Administration is "stalled in the middle of the road," that "our prosperity is as spotted as a coach dog," and that "evidence is mounting that we are losing the cold war while neutralism is on the rise through much of the world...
...most outspoken foe of deportation for White House squirrels (TIME, April 4, 1955), Oregon's animal-loving Democratic Senator Richard L Neuberger leaped to the defense of a herd of Texas goats. Outraged by a report that the goats are being plugged with high-powered rifles at Fort Sam Houston in order to give Army medics practice in treating battlefield casualties, Conservationist Neuberger demanded that Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson investigate the tale and end any such inhumane target practice. At week's end, Wilson had made no reply to Neuberger, nor had the Pentagon made any move...
...Foe with Friends. Victory in California meant more than the state's 68 delegates for Stevenson. It also meant that he had knocked Kefauver all the way out of the presidential ring, a vital display of political muscle. In the golden afterglow of the Golden State primary, many an uncertain delegate around the U.S. began to lean more and more toward Stevenson. But the big prize was by no means in his hands. The end of the primaries signaled the start of a whole new battle in the struggle for the Democratic nomination, a struggle of political maneuver that...
Curiously, the debacle may benefit Tydings when he battles Old Foe John Marshall Butler, the Republican who defeated him, with Joe McCarthy's help, in 1950. To anchor power and brighten prestige, the dominant Mahoney Democrats must help Tydings. Aware of this, Mahoney at convention's end poured balm on Democratic wounds with a close-ranks-until-November order...
Stalin commissioned and improved upon films, books and pictures glorifying himself. "Stalin loved to see the film The Unforgettable Year of 1919, in which he was shown on the steps of an armored train and where he was practically vanquishing the foe with his own saber. Let Kliment Voroshilov, our dear friend, find the necessary courage and write the truth about Stalin; after all, he knows how Stalin had fought...