Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Approximately every four years the College's political clubs shake themselves from their lethargy to launch wild attacks on each other. After a few weeks the effort seems to overcome them and they quickly slip back into inactivity. While political debates continue in dormitory rooms and newspapers, local partisan groups ignore each other, their members thoroughly engrossed in agreeing with themselves...
...highly partisan group of about 25 Puritan students and tutors stood at the finish line to cheer in their winning team. In the first race, the 150-yard medley relay, Bob Eakin Ed Ginsburg, and Roger Clifton won handily in the time of 1:26.6. Clifton showed his durability when he later took first in the 50-yard freestyle in 25.4 seconds, while teammate Dave Whitman took second...
...compromise provision that no state funds could be spent on roads that would serve "only" as feeders for toll roads. This was such a minor limitation that jubilant Craig men talked of sending down to the drugstore to get some "face-saving cream" for their foes. Cracked one Craig partisan: "We can build outhouses on the toll roads if we want...
From the Eli point of view, the possibility of sending a humiliated Crimson out to the Colorado championship tourney is inviting indeed. At any rate, with Yale playing before the usual highly-partisan crowd, a repeat of last Saturday's rout is hardly likely...
...shot from the lip. "Mr. Chairman," said Holifield, "no matter how deep you bury it, it is still going to smell bad." Holifield may have been right, although not in the way he meant. Commented the New York Times's Pundit Arthur Krock: "The most unattractive exhibition of partisan politics the capital has witnessed for years is the row over the Dixon-Yates contract . . . these Democrats themselves have made the controversy bitter. And they have augmented its heat and scope by forcing into the area of partisan politics what should be a sober, nonpolitical issue of engineering and administrative...