Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their fury himself chooses to take so simple-minded a tack in his relationship with the American people. In burlesqueing such simplicity. Roth and De Antonio can only hope to force some concern over the degenerate state into which political language has fallen. Our Gang is hardly a partisan effort. Although there is a curiously inconsistent logic beneath the book--refusing, for example, to parody Martin Luther King or Lee Harvey Oswald while socking it to Jacqueline Charisma Colossus--as with Millhouse, the enemy is not so much one particular man in power as it is those forces which permitted...
...certain widely accepted criteria of eligibility for the office of Supreme Court Justice. These include, we believe, a rich experience and distinguished performance in the realm of law, and qualities of mind and spirit promising a wise and fair search for the legal merits of cases undistorted by partisan, personal, or regional bias...
...Yugoslavia's President Tito in the movie Sutjeska. So was Tito. "I think he was afraid of being embarrassed," Burton explained. Both of them relaxed a bit, though, after some lengthy confabs about what it was like in World War II, when "Tito" was the code name for Partisan Leader Josip Broz, who gave the Germans a rough time in the Yugoslav mountains. How about a part in the film for Wife Elizabeth Taylor? "She could have played a woman doctor, a partisan who was badly wounded, had both legs amputated and died later," said Burton. But nothing came...
...years as Interior Secretary, partly an exhortation for sweeping environmental reform, partly a popular politician's blunt view of the Nixon Administration. Its hallmark: an exuberant confidence in the wisdom of the American people, provided that their elected leaders present to them issues stripped of partisan politics...
...defense, the Big Red has experience in goal with Craig Spaak, and that should be enough. Cornell is known for its vociferous fans and the Big Red will face both Harvard and Brown before the partisan crowd. The visitors should be happy with...