Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred thousand moviegoers packed into 20 Moscow theaters in four days to see the new film success, Young Guard, with music by Shostakovich. Seventeen theaters in Leningrad were also jammed with fans, anxious to see the dramatization of Alexander Fadeev's best selling novel about Russian partisan heroes. Though the music wasn't what drew most of the crowds, Shostakovich could read his press notices and see, with a practiced eye, just where he stood...
...great day of election draws nearer and nearer, all the political parties are imploring the people to register promptly and to vote without fail. Some campaigners have even struggled above the steam of partisan battle to admit that a large turnout is desirable in itself, whether it happens to be for their particular groups or not. And although a great many potential voters seem to be less than inspired this year by the privilege of picking their government, few will deny that a perplexing choice is better than no choice...
...government's intentions." This "counterpart fund" comprises monies France has been bound to set aside since the start of the Economic Cooperation Administration as an anti-inflation reserve specifically paralleling each American allocation. Ordinarily the reserve would remain untouchable. Schlesinger claims that releasing the funds is officially a non-partisan action aimed at economic health, but that it actually operates in a fundamental way against De Gaulle...
...release says that "it is not reassuring to our friends in other lands to see what appears to be a debate raging over such statements. . ." and hopes that "they can be removed from the realm of partisan politics." It calls all this "an effort to encourage national unity." Now I can see well enough that it's nothing of the kind. It's an effort to poke fun at Dewey's speeches, and a silly effort at that. Almost anybody this side of Dogpatch knows that you could get the same results out of Hamlet if you removed single sentences...
Parker, the model of tennis concentration, tried to shut out the partisan crowd from his consciousness. ("It was like a bullfight. I was the bull") But Parker couldn't handle Pancho's powerful but erratic serve or his incessant volleying attack. With a happy grin on his handsome scarface, the big (6 ft. 2 in.) Gonzales offered his victim to the crowd...