Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Populism aimed to free the small farmer from debt, and it inspired William Jennings Bryan's free-silver policy, which was designed to put more money into circulation. From Populist roots grew the Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota, the Non-Partisan League in North Dakota and the Progressive Party headed by Wisconsin's Senator Robert La Follette. The movement also developed its ugly side, later serving as a power base for such back-country bigots and racist leaders as Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo, Georgia Governor Eugene Talmadge and, eventually, Tom Watson. Today, however, Southern Populism is rural liberalism...
...crowd. Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, an F.D.R. wonder boy, was reported by the newspapers to be in New York as the escort of the convention's chairwoman, Lindy Boggs. And somebody looked around the room at a party given by Arthur Schlesinger, Roosevelt historian, Stevenson partisan and Kennedy aide, and remarked, "Ah, we have here all the best minds...
...political purposes, or at least nurture it through November. Betty Ford, who had worried two years ago that the Bicentennial might be a mess, took her shoes off in her sitting room and declared she was amazed at the joy she encountered. She, too, let a little partisan fervor seep out, wondering in private if people did not understand that her husband had helped things along...
Open City. The story behind this movie is as remarkable as the film itself--Roberto Rossellini made it while the Germans still occupied Rome in 1945. The plot anticipates the Historic Compromise; a priest and a Communist partisan cooperate to combat fascism...
...these reasons, the City Council, at times dominated by partisan politics and old town-gown animosities, is not particularly suited for the complex discussion on DNA research. Still, without more than a three-week crash course in DNA, its decision to place a ban on the research until further inquiries are made, is prudent...