Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current rubber's five matches, four had been draws. Thus everything rested on the fifth. Twenty-four hours before it began, a wave of hope far wilder than ever gripped a partisan World Series crowd in the U.S. swept Britain. Queues lengthened outside London's Kennington Oval. Intoned the London Times: "The cricket community at the opposite ends of the world stands with bated breath...
Holding up their partisan yardstick, the Democrats measured off the record of the 83rd Congress last week and ruled it a Republican fiasco. In a radio report to the nation last week, Dwight Eisenhower measured the 83rd's first session against the broad aims and purposes of his Administration and ruled it a good beginning -"I repeat-only a little more than a beginning...
...Tory crusade never got rolling, and the campaign itself turned out to be the mildest in recent Canadian history. Thin crowds attended political meetings. Even the Canadian newspapers, usually violently partisan, stayed stiffly objective in news coverage. The impression grew steadily-and the voters confirmed it resoundingly at the polls-that in Canada, the time for a change had not yet come...
...goes. The stories are a good sample of what Partisan Review has been offering to its choosy 5,800 subscribers since the war, and this in itself amounts to a certificate of modernity. For the drugstore trade, Avon has decorously dropped all cheesecake, jacketed the book in black...
...kind of boy-meets-girl story that can be illustrated by a ripe cheesecake jacket. Occasionally, however, Avon offers a change of diet, and its latest, Stories in the Modern Manner, is an adventure in highbrow smorgasbord: 14 short stories and a one-act play from the literary bimonthly, Partisan Review. The editors never explain what the tag "modern manner" means, but most of these stories do have one thing in common: they are about the end of something-love, life, adolescence or illusion...