Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benton, the final speaker on the topic, "Ethics and Politics," said that such an Elections Practices Commission, composed of distinguished non-partisan citizens, could sponsor an "era of public enlightenment which our politics desperately needs...
Although the amendment is aimed at taking redistricting out of politics as far as possible, the issue is almost certain to arouse bitter partisan argument in the legislature. But obstruction for the sake of possible short-term political gains can hardly benefit either party. Massachusetts should welcome the opportunity to make the gerrymander extinct...
...wisest words in the dispute were spoken by crusty old Lord Vansittart, a distant cousin but no partisan of the hero. Lawrence's part in the Arabian revolt, wrote Vansittart, "was not titanic, but it was considerable. Mr. Aldington cannot reconcile-nor did Lawrence himself-faults and gifts, purple and dust, Dichtung und Wahrheit, bravery and inaccuracy, daring and brusquerie, delicacy and cheek...
...hottest motor races on record. As the temperature soared to 104° in the shade, drivers wilted like limp lettuce, and some dropped out to recuperate from heat exhaustion every few laps on the burning 2.4-mile track. Cars changed hands so often that a partisan crowd, rooting for Argentine Favorite José Froilan González in his Italian Ferrari, often found itself cheering his teammates, France's Maurice Trintignant or Italy's Giuseppe Farina...
With all the clipped detachment it could muster, the BBC announced that Mrs. Knight's third talk this week would be a debate with a partisan of religion, Mrs. Jenny Morton-ex-missionary, clergyman's wife and mother of four. "I'm not angry," said Mrs. Morton. "Mrs. Knight's attitude is rather out-of-date...