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Word: partisans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cups to make rooms for some 150 chairs and a platform for folksingers Bill Wood and Joan Baez. From the management's point of view, the evening was a success--standing room only and only one visit from Cambridge's Finest. And from the audience's somewhat partisan point of view the evening was great...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Folkways | 3/3/1959 | See Source »

Ever since the disputed 18-9 Penn victory two years ago in Philadelphia, meets between the two teams have taken place in an air of thinly veiled hostility. When the varsity lost in 1957, most observers blamed the loss on partisan Penn officials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity to Face Penn Today in Ivy Fencing | 2/28/1959 | See Source »

...raucous, highly partisan crowd of 2000 last night saw the varsity quintet come from seven points behind in the second half to edge Brandeis, 74 to 73, in Waltham. The Crimson went ahead for good with three and a half minutes to go on a jump shot by Bob Bowditch, but at that point the eventual outcome was still very much in doubt...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: Crimson Retaliates in Second Half To Defeat Brandeis Quintet, 74-73 | 2/18/1959 | See Source »

Chatting with newsmen in his Portland dining room one day last week, Oregon's Democratic Senator Richard Neuberger, once known in senatorial halls for his partisan wrangling and headline catching, quietly mused about some new changes in his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: Lease on Life | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...contest at Annapolis, it is always difficult to predict what will happen in the raucous confines of the Navy squash courts. The combination of rabidly partisan crowds, swelteringly hot courts, unusually aggressive Navy players and other local conditions have proven the undoing of better teams than the present Crimson aggregation. Very few people would have given a penny for Navy's chances against Yale, but when it was all over, the Midshipmen had gained a 5-4 verdict. All this, combined with Friday the thirteenth, should give the Crimson what will undoubtedly be its toughest match of the season...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Varsity Squash Players to Face Weak Penn Squad This Afternoon | 2/12/1959 | See Source »

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