Word: outcaste
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...Sapio's shaky perch slavered a whole litter of lesser tigers just waiting for him to make his first slip. He slipped, and soon. With Flynn, he supported Judge Ferdinand Pecora, an honest man cursed with every outward attribute of the typical Tammany stooge, against a Tammany outcast. Vincent Impellitteri, who looked to the voters like a brave little David slinging stones at a Goliath. "Impy," without machine support, won easily. Never had Tammany Hall suffered a more galling defeat. De Sapio was on the way out; at one point he managed to hold on by only two committee...
...Tito, the worried outcast of yesterday was now feeling his oats. So far, his "active coexistence" was doing well: just look at what important guests he had lured to his small country-the Premier and the party boss of Russia. And this week, Burma's U Nu is coming; after him, India's Nehru. What more could a peasant...
...campaign speech to the country, Churchill was not even referred to. "There is of course no gratitude in politics," commented the Manchester Guardian. "But it... does seem a little curious that the Tory Party should have dropped Sir Winston . . . absolutely, as if he had become a liability, almost an outcast." Before the week was out, Eden dispatched an amends-seeking note to "the architect of our success . . . the leader under whom I have been so proud to serve." It was one of Eden's few fumbles, and betrayed his felt need to emerge from the shadow as a leader...
...were always on him. But Bingham's masterpieces are the superbly drawn scenes of settled frontier life, electioneering, shooting competitions and riverboat life. Painted in the 1840s and 1850s, they already point to the days when Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn will think of Injun Joe as an outcast, when the streets will be lined with whitewashed fences...
...retain even a portion of his earlier political influence. A retiring governor ordinarily has little enough power in the state organization, even if he is able to select his successor. But a governor whose hand-picked candidate goes down to defeat is likely to find himself a political outcast. The result may be a dangerous power vacuum within the state party...