Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly 500 intensely partisan Holy Cross fans saw the varsity lacrosse team defeat the Crusaders 8 to 6 yesterday afternoon. Playing in the Holy Cross football stadium, the Crimson came to life in the third period and easily overcame a 2-1 halftime deficit...
...free-style debates about the state of the world. An English class of 18-year-old boys last week began reading about poverty in 18th century England, then wandered off into an argument about present-day economic and social conditions in Red China and the U.S. To a U.S. partisan who overstated the material abundance of America, Hamlett said gently that "Yes, there are poor people in Los Angeles, too." Moroccans are much concerned with race prejudice in the U.S., listen intently to Hamlett's explanations that the widely reported outrages are only part of the story...
These 13 groups represent more diversity than activity. In the large, partisan groups, the grasp for personal power and prestige often exceeds the grasp of real political issues. Concern for intra-organizational structure can be carried to extremes, and it is unfortunate that self-conscious phrases like "bureaucratic hierarchy" and "public image" are so indispensible to these clubs...
Throughout the evening Yale's first line, on the ice for all but one of the goals, forechecked and scrapped in a disorganized--though fired-up--attack. The whole team responded to the highly partisan crowd, which cheered whenever a Yale man touched the puck...
Twice Booth led Yale drives for touchdowns, and twice he came through with perfect dropkicks, the second one putting the Elis ahead for the first time that afternoon. Then, with the partisan Yale Bowl crowd in an uproar, Booth took an Army punt on his own 20 and twisted 80 yards through the entire Cadet team for the score that clinched the game...