Word: partymen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Snapped Nehru: "The Congress Party is weak and getting weaker." While his sweating partymen squirmed in their chairs, Nehru lashed out at party factionalism, internal squabbles, the ever-widening gap between the party and the people. "Our strong point," said Nehru, "is the past. Unless we get out of our present rut, the Congress Party is doomed...
...careful clearance with Congressmen and state political bosses before making appointments. Sherman Adams, crusty, hard-working ex-governor of New Hampshire, at first often overlooked this clearance. Then, when the squawks began, he grew so cautious that his office became a bottleneck. Another sore point among state and local partymen: the tendency of eager new Republican bureau heads to hurry the hiring of subordinates, thus bypassing patronage channels...
Christian Democratic deputies rushed up to form a barricade between the government and the Left. Within seconds, rival partymen were hard at it. The Reds' thick-nosed Milanese Labor Leader Gaetano Invernizzi made a flying leap from the top of the Communist benches into the heart of enemy territory. He was promptly kicked in the skull by potbellied Veronese Sculptor Eugenio Spiazzi. "Session adjourned!" screamed the chamber's President Giovanni Gronchi, jangling his bell madly...