Word: partisanship
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...French editions of Ségur's journal (first in 1824) was before Tolstoy as he wrote his masterpiece. The journal was a masterpiece of its own kind-the work of a man of taste, talent and action who kept an eye for fact amid the most extreme partisanship of war, and who could, while still faithful to his Emperor, record the deterioration of a man and his fortunes...
Crafty Carl Vinson was stretching things a bit-and he was enjoying every minute of the partisanship. As chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Democrat Vinson had given the White House such a rough time during hearings on President Eisenhower's defense reorganization bill that the bill voted out of his committee seemed a magnanimous, bipartisan bow to the President's wishes-and the President indeed bowed gratefully in return. Then, as the bill headed for the House floor, Ike had some deep reservations (TIME, June 9) and fired them off with an unaccustomed roar...
...whys could better be explained on such grounds as these: 1) In 1952 California gave some semblance of partisanship to its primary ballots by requiring that cross-filing candidates be identified by party. While Republicans waxed fat on well-tried personalities, the Democrats skillfully rebuilt a party machine to take advantage of the challenge. 2) The Democratic tide is running in California as it is elsewhere around the U.S. 3) Recession and general uneasiness over world affairs stirred a protest vote of sorts. 4) Republicans were split and confused by sub-rosa battling between Knowland and Knight factions...
...rank to the Defense Secretary and the Joint Chiefs of Staff-and not directly to the President. It is Neil McElroy's intention not to promote men in positions of "importance and responsibility" to higher ranks unless they have "demonstrated . . . the capacity for dealing objectively-without extreme service partisanship-with matters of the broadest significance to our national security...
...MUNDT: It is a priceless pleasure to work in the committee room with the distinguished senior Senator from Georgia, who has a vast knowledge of agricultural problems, and who applies himself to their solution without partisanship...