Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indians' only sophomore, Doug Donahue, raised the hopes of his father and a highly partisan Dartmouth crowd when he won the third game, but Alan Quasha won 11 of the last 13 points to take the match at five...
...Stalin launched an international Communist propaganda crusade against the Yugoslavs. Dedijer, then serving as director of the Information Office, was amused by personal attacks on himself, but was appalled when a Soviet book accused his first wife, Olga, of having worked for the Gestapo. She had actually been a partisan surgeon who died in agony after a Nazi attack. Stalin cut off trade between East European countries and Yugoslavia. Railway and postal services were reduced or suspended. Stalin's paranoia was so inflamed that between 1949 and 1952 he put tens of thousands of Communists in Eastern Europe...
...sturdy temperament to defy Joseph Stalin, and Vladimir Dedijer, now 57, well exemplifies it. A strapping, jovial Serbian, he is in the U.S. this year, tranquilly teaching a course called "Heresy and Dissent" at Brandeis University. But he lived through years of almost inhuman warfare as a Tito partisan in World War II, and still suffers searing headaches from a near fatal war wound. "When my head hurts," the otherwise generous Dedijer admits, "I hate all Germans, including Marx and Goethe...
...Boston Garden last weekend. Ryan won the Carens Mile, beating Quirk, Diehl, and Spengler, and he is the favorite in the GBC's. But the smoother surface in the Bubble and a partisan crowd make the outcome less predictable. Ryan is likely to take the lead early and try to hold off the others in the final laps...
...Kennedy into saying "to hell with them" and running away. Assuming that Kennedy, as he repeatedly proclaimed, had no intention of jumping into the 1972 race, the defeat was not a total gain for Nixon. Byrd may be more philosophically attuned to some Nixon programs, but he takes his partisan role seriously and is a far more abrasive and belligerent scrapper AP than either Majority Leader Mike Mansfield or Kennedy...