Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...these recounts, first because so few experienced counters were on hand; second because I felt I might be able to assist Mr. Hall, who despite the imputations of your anonymous letter-writers is the leading expert on ballot procedure at Harvard; third, because I was in no way a partisan of any of the six men being considered; and fourth, because it had not occurred to me that under the circumstances, where I had no direct interest involved in the outcome, to do so would arouse any comment whatsoever among my classmates, let alone imputations of fraud...
With barely a second left to play, sophomore guard Gerry Murphy flipped in a basket to give the varsity basketball team a 60 to 58 win over Dartmouth at Hanover on Saturday night. Over 1500 partisan fans watched the Crimson beat the Green on their home court for the first time in the 45 game series...
...took almost an hour and a half of discussion, before the partisan crowd which covered the stage and extended into the wings, for the speakers to come to grips on the scheduled topic. "The Catholic Church and Politics...
Speaking for the Tories, Winston Churchill last week brought in a partisan but elo quent indictment: "We now approach the crisis to which every spendthrift comes when he has used up everything he can lay his hands on, and everything he can beg or borrow, and must face the hard reckoning of facts . . . With the immense aid given us by the U.S. and our dominions from overseas, there was no reason why [Britain] should not have got back by now to solvency, security and independence...
...Churchill's cabinet from 1942 to 1945. By temperament, training and conviction, Attlee was as far from being either a spendthrift or a dictator as any man could be. Yet his party's record in power and its program for the future had frightened many a less partisan Briton than Winston Churchill...