Word: partiality
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Nodding toward the Capitol chambers, Ehrlichman declared: "You can go over here in the gallery and watch a member totter onto the floor in a condition of at least partial inebriation. I think that is important for the American people to know. And if the only way it can be brought out is through his opponents in a political campaign, then I think that opponent has an affirmative obligation to bring that forward...
Theodore Roosevelt rebuffed a congressional attempt to get documents on a federal legal action that had or had not been undertaken against U.S. Steel -and if not, why not. (Lest it seem that nothing changes over the years, T.R.'s partial excuse was that he could not violate a promise of secrecy to an individual, an explanation that in this suspicious age would be hooted down.) Within a month of taking office, John F. Kennedy was tangling with a congressional subcommittee that wanted documents on foreign aid programs for Latin America; after considerable acrimony, the documents were reluctantly...
Rome police were at first highly skeptical that young Getty had been kidnaped at all. Independent and partial to hippies, Getty rarely even slept in the apartment of his mother, former Actress Gail Getty Jeffries, 39, who divorced the boy's father, Eugene Paul Getty, and has since been remarried and separated. Instead, he would find a bed in the apartment of an artist friend or, more recently, in the flat of two 24-year-old German twins, Martine Zacher and Jutta Zacher Winkelmann...
...revolutionaries" members of the Democratic Party merely creates a more radical version of New York's New Democratic Coalition, a disorganized and slightly comical caucus of liberal Democrats. As another loyal faction in the Democratic organization, Domhoff's radicals are only another interest group calling for concessions. They bear partial responsibility for party decisions, and are open to co-optation by party liberals. It was a variation on Domhoff's brand of party loyalty that made possible the Watergate break-in and coverup. Dedication to any organization whose basic aim is the expansion of its own power can only lead...
...hundred and fifty Summer School tuition scholarships are awarded yearly on the basis of need mostly to minority group students. However, grants outside of Harvard enable 25 per cent of the summer enrollees to have at least some form of partial...