Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixonian rubric laid upon the Burger Court is "Strict construction of the Constitution." If history is any guide, critics will soon accuse the court of ignoring this mandate in favor of personal opinions or even partisan politics. And the shrewdest critics will be the nation's ablest court watchers-the legal scholars who often find the court guilty of faulty legal reasoning...
Arthur A. Houghton Jr., D.F.A., president of Steuben Glass and chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Edmund Sixtus Muskie, LL.D., Senator from Maine. Public servant, tactful handler of partisan and generational differences, and forceful spokesman for environmental quality...
...G.O.P. national chairman. But he ingratiated himself with the White House as an effective sniper, and since his appointment this January, the upstart Senate freshman has earned a reputation as the Administration's No. 1 gunslinger. In a season when the President has chosen to lower his partisan profile, Dole has stepped into the breach as party defender and cheerleader, spraying shot and zapping Democrats with Agnewesque zeal...
Dole averages a speech a day. The subjects of his partisan assaults in the Senate and from rostrums around the U.S. have run the gamut of Administration hobgoblins...
Eight months ago, Gardner's concern for the failings of our governmental system led him to the creation of Common Cause, which is designed to bypass partisan politics in order to deal directly with what he describes as a "system which is incapable of changing itself from within...