Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over-whelming majority in the group, and even with the most rigid discipline, Communist delegates could not control policy. Nor need the West counter any propaganda seeping in from Moscow. Working in the cultural field, UNESCO offers little opportunity for the sensationalism which marks General Assembly debates. Partisan speeches on non-political subjects have held little interest for the global audience...
...Again many an American scientist is troubled because he finds himself dragged willy-nilly into a partisan conflict . . . The scientist discovers that he is no longer the austere and impartial figure of popular legend and his own desires. Instead he is a partisan in a relentless battle for power . . . The scientist who is engaged in atomic research for the Government has no stomach for such power struggles-but he cannot avoid becoming involved in them ... To protect his sanity he disavows moral responsibility for the consequences of his work. But does he convince himself...
...magazine, to be titled "I.E., the Cambridge Review," will include the efforts not only of undergraduates, but of authors whose work has been published in such magazines as the New Yorker, Partisan Review, and Poetry...
...friends," he said, "a cold war of partisan politics between the Congress and the executive branch won't give us these goals. This brings up a political fact of life. You know perfectly well that you just can't have one car with two drivers at the steering wheel and expect to end up any place but in the ditch-especially when the drivers are set on going in different directions. You cannot have efficient Federal Government when the Congress wants to follow one philosophy of government and the executive branch another. In our system of government, progress...
...Deputies seats, two-thirds of the 60 Senate's seats, eleven out of 20 state governorships, and many lesser offices. In Rio's Maracana Stadium last week, 60 groups of election clerks counted away amid milling onlookers, nervous candidates, Coca-Cola vendors and party observers keeping a partisan eye on the counting. Now and then election officials brought in new canvas sacks full of ballots from guarded, iron-barred storerooms...