Word: partisanship
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Partisan Packages. Midway in the speech, some of the brass nickels of partisanship did get mixed in with the golden vision. The prosperous millennium can be achieved, said Truman, "only if we follow the right policies"-i.e., the Fair Deal, including such disputed measures as repeal of Taft-Hartley, the Brannan plan, aid to education, and health insurance...
This enigmatic tree-dweller (Whose sex could not be discerned by the more sage experts on Owlology) last year chose the Yard as his own domain. He (or she) sadly diminished the ranks of local pigeonry, thus causing furious partisanship among Yardlings. The advocates of campus cleanliness were decidedly pro-Owl, while the pig-con-squirrel lovers began to sport bows and arrows. The SPCA decreed that harming the Owl would upset the entire local balance of nature; budding politicos tried to capture it for Smoker campaigns; LIFE took its picture; but the Harvard Owl finally vanished as mysteriously...
...possible. In brawling Santa Fe, arguments were usually won by the man who was first on the draw. So the New Mexican's first two-page issue carried a "let's-be-friends" note: "The New Mexican, in Politics and Religion, will maintain a strict neutrality, regarding partisanship as utterly unnecessary and a barrier to the general good...
...summary, if being opposed to Mr. Curley is partisanship, I suppose I am a partisan. But for from concealing partisanship of this sort, I intend to make the most of it. Charles R. Cherington...
...tinged with error. I shall, of course, be glad to hear from dissenters either after class or at a later time during my office hours. And I would like to assure the writer that if he can persuade me that I have sinned unduly in the direction of partisanship, I will be glad to make amends either privately or publicly, as he may wish. I might as well warn him in advance, however, that if he intends to persuade me that there is anything much to be said in favor of Mr. Curley or against the idea of driving...