Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most Chinese who think not in partisan terms, the internal deadlock that persists in China today presents a dilemma. They are seriously aware of the shortcomings and weaknesses of their present Government: its wide spread corruption, its lack of initiative, and its reluctance to change of its own accord; its tendency to look back into China's past glory for consolation, and its general mental attitude that may be an unfortunate reflection, of China's physical blockade. On the other hand they are the last persons to have any illusion of the Communists being angels of democracy...
Scarcely a month had passed since the Red Army entered Belgrade. Sappers had removed 4,158 mines, 7,270 unexploded bombs, 76,298 live German shells, most of the hidden German soldiers. Partisan boys drilled in streets over which stretched banners emblazoned with new Yugoslavia's red star, Russia's hammer & sickle. Big pictures of Russia's Stalin, Yugoslavia's Tito stared side by side from every shop window. The grey-clad troops of the Red Army rolled ceaselessly toward the Hungarian front in U.S. Lend-Lease trucks. Overhead, Russian Stormoviks and Yaks roared...
Shortly after, help came from outside. Two squadrons of British-trained Czechoslovak fighter pilots dropped into partisan-held airfields. Eight thousand Czechoslovak army men parachuted in from Russian-based planes. Some supplies were flown in from Italy. Under experienced 54-year-old General Rudolf Viest, all fighters were formed into the First Czechoslovak Army, won Allied recognition and belligerent status...
...objections to your taking sides. That is your right, and in view of your connections it is perfectly-normal that you should be in the Dewey camp. But be frank and honest about it. Do not claim to be giving your readers impartial news and then print such obvious partisan nonsense as the above quotation...
...gear in which he campaigned successfully into Terms I, II & III. Out of the White House garage came the huge black Packard touring car with the bulletproof windows. To the Secret Service went the order to mobilize all resources. Franklin Roosevelt had decided to campaign in the usual partisan sense...