Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that was it. Five minutes out of 60 when the Harvard football team meshed as completely as the dreams of the most partisan fan. It was a taste of invincibility for those who have believed all along in the deceptive talent of this squad. It was the 285 seconds that at first evoked hope, then despair as the rest of the game failed to do it justice...
...started out like another joke, reminiscent of the 6-1 degradings of Smith and Stonehill or the 5-1 humiliation of Tufts. But despite a 3-0 halftime lead, by the end of the women's soccer game, the partisan Crimson crowd was about as amused as the audience at a sleazy joint for down-and-out comics...
...Partisan political motives of the Senate's majority Democrats were apparent in their treatment of the Republicans' highly publicized Kemp-Roth amendment, which called for slashing income tax rates by 33% over the next three years. On a virtual party-line vote, the Senate two weeks ago killed Kemp-Roth, 60 to 36. But, with barely a blush, the Democrats last week rammed through an amendment introduced by Georgia Conservative Sam Nunn that could cut taxes $164.5 billion by 1983. The measure differed from Kemp-Roth by a provision that it go into effect only if specified decreases...
...look much like a straight shooter, but Barbara Bach is playing a tough-minded Yugoslav partisan about to help some British soldiers blow up a bridge. The film: Force 10 from Navarone, based on a novel by Alistair MacLean. Says Bach: "I enjoyed being the only woman among all those simpatici men." So simpatica was Bach that the screenwriter built up her role. In fact, Author MacLean, on a visit to the set, showed some surprise that his movie had a female lead...
...grew up voting Democratic but wouldn't mind breaking the habit. Given the chance to vote for Duryea--a moderate conservative, almost a city dweller, a man who says he understands the city and its needs--the Carey-haters may well bolt the ticket with hardly a twinge of partisan guilt...