Word: leftist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...damage the no vote has had will make any gains short-lived." Indeed, the Elyseé ambitions of Hollande, 50, and Fabius wilted last week. They trailed Jospin in the poll that identified him as the most credible candidate. More bad news: the same poll found most leftist voters thought the Socialists would be no better than the current conservative government...
...supremely self-confident playwright. His dramatic inventions--of private conversations, of motivational hints--are always plausible. And applaudable, if you are, like this reviewer, skeptical of the Iraq war effort. But they are, of course, historically unreliable. For Hare is a British twit of the tiresomely superior leftist kind. We have no doubt that if he, instead of Blair, had been Prime Minister, he would have stood up more manfully to the Bushies. We have no doubt of his pip-pip contempt for the primitive politics of his slightly dim-witted American cousins. This attitude is fun. And it makes...
Lefty, and leftist, Bill (Spaceman) Lee departed the majors in 1982, but in Have Glove, Will Travel, he is barnstorming again
...offices of the Nation, the weekly magazine of leftist opinion, staff members like to joke that "if it's bad for the country, it's good for the Nation." In a political age dominated by bloggers, conservatives and cable news, the Nation delivers a regular helping of unfashionably liberal journalism printed on gray butcher paper, lightened only by pencil drawings and the mordant poetry of Calvin Trillin. The formula is working: since the election of George W. Bush in 2000, its circulation has soared 96%, to 184,000; in 2004 the magazine enjoyed its best year ever, reversing years...
...final downfall began when President Eisenhower restricted his access to classified information. Strauss orchestrated a three-member AEC panel to determine whether Oppenheimer should be allowed to retain his security clearance. The “Chevalier affair,†the Tatlock tryst, and Oppenheimer’s old Leftist connections resurfaced and torpedoed his chances at swaying the panel. In the end, Strauss had stacked the decks too high against Oppenheimer, and the panel recommended the termination of his security clearance on a two-to-one vote...