Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plate dinner (cold roast beef and string beans) with 5,400 Republicans at the huge International Amphitheater. In a twelve-minute address at meal's end, he promised "prompt and effective modernization of our defense organization," urged improved educational and mutual assistance programs, asked an end to partisan bickering over U.S. security. Said he: "Americans must never and will never let the issue of security and peace become a pawn of anyone's political chess game...
Playing with a cast on his injured left arm, Pettit did his best before a partisan crowd of 12,854 at the St. Louis Arena...
With that, beribboned (two D.S.M.s, two D.S.C.s, a Silver Star) Slim Jim Gavin marched out of the hearing room, leaving behind, instead of a disturbing picture of an Army where high officials barter for stars, a picture of a passionate partisan who played the game and lost...
...world--was rapidly attacked as too far-fetched for the 85th, but it is unlike Senator Johnson to go out on a limb for anything he does not deeply believe is essential. His eloquence in communicating his concern has already muted some critics and given the rest some non-partisan second thoughts...
...Johnson uncharacteristically exposed himself to political attack, the President took special pains to strengthen a seriously weakened position without over-extending himself, as Johnson may have done. The President did not, however, neutralize himself, as he frequently has in the past. While not taking a partisan approach, he assumed some of the blame for under-estimating the psychological significance of the Sputnik, and he at least recognized the existence of the dispute over inter-service rivalry. Because he did not make a mea culpa statement of reform and renewed good intentions, he left a large measure of the blame unplaced...