Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai Stevenson's proposals that we halt H-bomb tests and think about ending the draft deserve praise because these statements made campaign issues out of national defense problems heretofore clouded in "bi-partisan" obscurity. But neither Stevenson's words not the Eisenhower administration's replies give any indication that a very necessary debate on defense policies will take place before November...
...have appeared partisan in my remarks," Herter said, "it is because I frankly believe that the present Administration has been operating on a very sound economic policy...
...personal safety. No member of the Yugoslav government or foreign office went along, a fact which underlined the significance of the fourth member of the party: mild-mannered, tough-cored Djuro Pucar, a Serbian and longtime Communist who was active in Tito's World War II partisan movement, and is now one of the Yugoslav dictator's closest advisers on Communist party and ideological matters...
...Knights Templar were organized in 1128 to protect pilgrims going to the Holy Land. With the end of the Crusades, the Templars became less a fighting order of knights than a collection of enormously wealthy bankers. By the use of informers, partisan judges and torture, King Philip and the Inquisition liquidated the order, took over its possessions. Under torture, many Templars admitted to the crimes of spitting on the Cross, denying Christ, sodomy, embezzlement, worshiping the Devil...
...Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, where Minton toned down his predilection for fiddling with the Constitution and did a fair and workmanlike job. Eight years later, when Harry Truman appointed him to the U.S. Supreme Court, he granted that he had been "a strong partisan" in the Senate, but had put all that behind him. Returning last month from a six-week jaunt to Europe, Minton raised legal eyebrows by reverting to partisanship, endorsing Candidate Adlai Stevenson as "a very able man" and denigrating Candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower as "terribly handicapped physically." When his discretion was challenged...