Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Delhi's pretext for the takeover was that the ousted government of Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi was guilty of "acts of maladministration, corruption and misuse of power for partisan ends." The more probable cause was the prospect of state elections. In Tamil Nadu's assembly, Karunanidhi's Dravidian Progress Party, a populist movement dedicated to social reform and greater state autonomy, held a commanding majority. The assembly's tenure was due to expire March 21, and Mrs. Gandhi did not want to extend its life. Apparently she feared that any election-state or national-during...
Harvard's bench showered captain Jim Strathmeyer with ebullient support as he took to the mats while a hyped-up partisan crowd cheered on the Quakers. The Crimson was trailing 16-13 when Strathmeyer knifed in for the deciding take-down. "He hit a guy with a fireman's carry and went on to clobber him," said Smith...
...only was the President's veto overridden by a substantial margin-310 to 113-but 49 of the 144 Republican Congressmen voted with the Democrats. The startling defeat for Ford set the mood and the stage for what promises to be a congressional session full of tough, partisan politics and bitter confrontations with the White House. Hoping to help themselves-as well as their presidential candidate, whoever he may be-in the upcoming elections, the Democrats will be out to portray Ford as the great naysayer while they fight for social programs and more jobs. President Ford...
...Waugh met Winston Churchill's son Randolph in the bar of White's Club, and as a result wound up being parachuted behind the lines in Yugoslavia. Waugh's first diary entry reads "Tito like lesbian" and from then on he always referred to the partisan leader as "she." He produced a grossly biased report (for which he falsified the evidence," accusing Tito of trying to destroy the Catholic Church, and when the British Foreign Office refused to pay attention, Waugh took it straight to the Pope...
...though, that the Olympics should present the most riveting and partisan spectacle for U.S. viewers. The nation's most talented team is in speed skating, with at least two gold-medal prospects (see box page 64). For nine days they will be locked in a race with a powerful Russian assemblage...