Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Having slept soundly on his indignation, he wrote out next morning a statement denouncing the appointment of the A.F.L. Plumbers & Pipe Fitters' President Martin P. Durkin as Secretary of Labor. It was "incredible," said Taft, that the President-elect should appoint a man who "has always been a partisan Truman Democrat, who fought General Eisenhower's election and advocated repeal of the Taft-Hartley...
Bruce Munro's varsity soccer team booted in more goals against Brown Saturday than against any other opponent this season. They needed every one to subdue the Bruins 5 to 4 before a partisan homecoming crowd of 1500 at Providence...
...island off Dalmatia's coast, where "everyone has his own donkey," Music paints spectral quadrupeds and hilly landscapes in dusty roses, blues and ochers, almost as if he sees them through a sandstorm. Music was a more realistic painter when the Nazis arrested him in 1943 as a partisan sympathizer, later sent him to Dachau. Says he: "Perhaps the ugly things of the concentration camp have brought me toward poetry. There is more mystery...
...tenor of uncertainty marked the optimistic pre-election prophesies of all College political club executives last night, as they edged to the very limb of partisan prediction...
...Stevenson victory and an appointment as Secretary of State. In any case, by sitting back and letting John Cashmore snatch the senatorial nomination, Harriman assured Irving M. Ives, the incumbent, of a victory. For, during the past six years, Ives, a strong advocate of civil rights and a bi-partisan foreign policy, has made himself all things to New York's heterogeneous voting population. A man of Harriman's national prestige might have given Ives a close fight. But Cashmore, Borough President of Brooklyn, who is an intense but relatively inept politician, hasn't a chance...