Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...foresaw during that campaign," said Irving Ives, "that the deliberate partisan effort to injure Mr. Dulles' reputation . . . was striking a dangerous blow at the cause of bipartisanship ... I am constrained to observe that those who sow the wind should not be surprised if they sometimes reap the whirlwind...
...evident," says Seitz, "that an appreciable component of Congress is not aware of the conditions which must be met if we are to obtain the most from our scientific fraternity. For example, the continued partisan attacks on the top administration of the Atomic Energy Commission, on issues that appear absurd to most scientists, has probably done as much to impede the progress of that organization as could a number of well-placed Russian agents." What is needed, says Physicist Seitz, is a hard-hitting, imaginative agency like the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development...
...August, 1949, issue of "Partisan Review," Schlesinger referred to sociologists "bursting onto university campuses, overflowing with portentous...hints of mighty wartime achievements, fanatical in their zeal and shameless in their claims, they persuaded or panicked many university administrations into giving their studies top priorities...
William E. Jenner, Republican from Indiana, who is devoid of influence among his colleagues and partisan-minded to the last brain cell. He recently implied that the H-bomb was part of a Democratic plot to wipe out civilization. Jenner's political vision is too myopic to win him classification even as a nationalist-he seems to think that the world consists only of the state of Indiana and that small patch of Chicago which holds up Colonel Bertie McCormick's Tribune Tower. So intense were Jenner's isolationist views when he returned from a worldwide senatorial...
...story got around and the label stuck. In their passionately partisan study of Pigs: From Cave to Corn Belt, Authors Charles Wayland Towne (retired publicity director for Anaconda Copper) and Edward Norris Wentworth (director of Armour's Livestock Bureau) make it clear that a pork packer as Uncle Sam's prototype is not too outlandish an idea. "More than any other commodity," say the authors, "pork implemented American retaliation against [British] tyranny in colonial days, and incidentally initiated the great international commerce that has characterized . . . modern [U.S.] culture." By 1850, "Porkopolis" (Cincinnati) had become the greatest pork-packing...