Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fourth period, the players were beginning to have a good time, and Munro was giving the bench its licks. Six goals were racked up in the last period, five in the first five minutes; and the almost two dozen partisan fans in the stands were wallowing in the delight of a rout...
...League for Democracy, Radcliffe's only non-partisan political organization, lapsed its charter until the fall, subject to renewal by Council should interest in the club revive. This will permit the League to send a representative to Gedar Hill and be included in the Red Book...
Still the studious observer of the dilemmas of life, the author of Jean Barois intends to remain true to his own modest self-definition: "An independent writer who . . . escaped the fascination of partisan ideologies, an investigator as objective as is humanly possible, as well as a novelist striving to express the tragic quality of individual lives...
Concluded 63-year-old Wilhelm Furtwängler: "Tonality is the last, sweetest flower of European culture ... As a musician, I remain a partisan of tonality...
...kind of film which you either view with mild amusement or dislike roundly. This is because it is culled from an excellent book and some people, finding the picture not up to the stratospheric standard of the book, thereupon turn violently against it. I, being merely a partisan and not a worshipper of Sam Clemens, could still scrape up a few chuckles...