Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your kind of guy./ His first name is Birch/ His last name is Bayh." With the strong support of the United Auto Workers, Bayh narrowly won by 11,000 votes. He still plays on the name; one of his campaign buttons says: I'm BAYH Partisan...
...their nine Independent opponents. The formation of the Convention '75 slate, then, killed two birds with one stone--in addition to allowing the seven endorsed candidates to enjoy the economy and mutual support afforded by pooled resources, it also eliminated once and for all the charade of a "non-partisan" campaign. Political lines were quickly and clearly drawn, and the interparty friction that is apparently a necessary element in any election has materialized...
Saturday, November 23--The Yale Bowl is a mass of seething partisan fans. In the first half, neither team can score, Harvard flustered by a vengeful Yale defense convinced Phillips's injury is part of a plot. Finally, late in the fourth quarter, Neal Miller carries the ball to Yale's 30-yard line. Two passes fail and Lynch successfully kicks a field goal. The defense holds, and with time running out for Harvard, fair catches a punt on its own 3-yard line. On the last play Kubacki drops back into the end zone to pass, eludes several Yale...
...Turkish voters it was the sharpest choice ever between the old political style and the new. There was bulbous Premier Suleyman Demirel, 51, speaking to a partisan crowd of 70,000 in Istanbul's Taksim Square and denouncing opposition leaders as "dangerous coddlers of Communism and anarchy. To vote for such people is a sin, sin, sin." His supporters roared back the ancient Ottoman chant: "Suleyman the Magnificent...
...less partisan biographer might have made more of these rampant contradictions. Yet The O'Hara Concern does show a side of the author that his posturings obscured. With remarkable discipline, O'Hara stayed on the wagon for the last 16 years of his life. He could be generous to friends and competitors (he extravagantly called Hemingway "the outstanding author since the death of Shakespeare"); his letters to his daughter reveal a tenderness that few outsiders ever suspected...