Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Truman said that what worries him most in the political scene of 1956 was "the shambles that is being made of our bipartisan foreign policy." His story: "I did everything I could to keep foreign policy out of partisan politics. But the Republican politicians attacked our foreign policy so violently in the 1952 campaign, they were stuck with their own propaganda. They had to pretend to change the foreign policy whether the change was good for the country or not. [They] cut down our armed forces-in the face of growing Communist strength -so they could claim to reduce Government...
...when one official told her to "get rid of all those reactionary Republican school directors and you'll get all the money you want," she flatly refused. Says Pearl about her campaign methods: "I have been accused of playing politics. I have. But I absolutely will not play partisan politics...
...preliminary game the Brown cubs delighted the partisan crowd with a fast 84-80 victory over the Yardlings. The Bruins' winning points came on foul shots in the final two minutes. Tomorrow, the freshmen meet Exeter in the Blockhouse...
...This policy of seeking to prevent war by preventing miscalculation by a potential aggressor is not a personal policy; it is not a partisan policy; it is a national policy. It is expressed in mutual security treaties which we now have with 42 nations, and which the United States Senate has overwhelmingly approved...
Guevara confessed himself a "partisan of free enterprise within the limits imposed by the nation's realities." Lechin answered with the ultimate insult: "Bourgeois!" Guevara then charged that Lechin, through a revolutionary manifesto, lad touched off the May 1949 attempt to seize the tin mines that ended with old-regime troops shooting down many miners. But it is an M.N.R. article of faith that the mines' tin-baron owners and the government they dominated provoked the massacre. Moving to the kill, Lechin got up a convention resolution denouncing Guevara for "inexact and tendentious statements." Siles, who could lose...