Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hill, the burly football star, did his stuff in the broad jump, winning with a 24' 5 1/2" leap. But it was Baker who wowed the loudly partisan crowd in Yale's Coxe Cage, winning the mile and two-mile to highlight Harvard's 67-47-23 victory over Yale and Princeton...
...matter how much they sympathize with the aspirations of the poor they serve, U.S. missionaries abroad have traditionally avoided taking sides in any partisan political conflict. The rule has been broken in Guatemala, where three priests and a nun of the Roman Catholic Maryknoll order have openly sided with the country's left-wing rebels...
Lyndon Johnson was interrupted by applause 53 times during his State of the Union address, but the cheers were mostly perfunctory and markedly partisan. Only once did he draw from his audience of Congressmen and Cabinet members, judges and generals a prolonged, spontaneous ovation. That was when he declared: "The American people have had enough of rising crime and lawlessness in this country...
...Berkeley last January set up a joint student-faculty committee to study ways to avert future disorders. This week the committee-headed by Law Professor Caleb Foote and Graduate Student Henry E. Mayer-released a 250-page report that charged almost everybody involved in past troubles with pursuing "partisan ends" but also recommended some sound proposals as to how the school should govern itself...
...Down. For all its unpleasantness, the Bellow affair brought Podhoretz the attention he craved. He got review assignments from The New Yorker and Partisan Review, which enhanced his club membership. And like many other members, he carefully cultivated his status. Every morning, he would scan the invisible "stockmarket report" on reputations and measure the gains and losses. By implication, he suggests that other members did the same. "Did so-and-so have dinner at Jacqueline Kennedy's apartment last night? Up five points. Was so-and-so not invited by the Lowells to meet the latest visiting Russian poet...