Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What such hand-wringers failed to realize was that, in any partisan effort to embarrass the Administration, they might make a record for the Democratic majority that Democrats, as well as Republicans and the whole U.S., would regret for years to come...
...weighted Foreign Relations Committee. Instead, the lone Foreign Relations opening was awarded to Massachusetts' able young (39) Jack Kennedy, narrowly beaten by Kefauver at Chicago last summer for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination. Aware of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson's subtle touch in every sphere of Senate partisan activity, Columnist Fleeson saw the committee appointments as "the opening gun of an effort to put across a Johnson-Kennedy ticket at the Democratic National Convention...
...Yugoslavia who openly calls himself a Social Democrat is ex-Vice President Milovan Djilas, onetime Tito favorite and World War II partisan fighter. Last month, deeply moved by what was happening to Hungary, Djilas wrote to New York's leftist but anti-Communist New Leader that the Hungarian revolution is the beginning of the end of Communism (TIME...
Last week six of Tito's secret police, accompanied by a judge, descended on the humble apartment of Milovan Djilas, no obscure person, but the former Vice President of Yugoslavia and onetime partisan comrade of Tito. The police seized all Djilas' recent writings and marched him off to jail. No charge was laid against Djilas. His presumed crime: he had written an article for New York's New Leader hailing the Hungarian revolution as a "new chapter in the history of humanity," in effect, the beginning of the end of Communism...
...Princeton victory was the one the Elis had been pointing to all season, and in fact, all year. Last season the Blue was favored, but behind a partisan crowd which constantly booed the Blue, the Tigers won, 13 to 9. The "Hate Yale" pennants had built up a great deal of resentment at New Haven, and last Saturday the Elis could have taken on anyone-as some dreamers have said, even Oklahoma...