Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Though eager to sell broadcast time to sponsored commentators with partisan views, most radio stations are timid about taking sides on anything. Last week-owing to circumstances beyond its control-a Los Angeles station found itself speaking right out in a labor dispute. Listeners to a recorded Harry Wismer sportscast on station KECA were startled when a fierce masculine voice suddenly broke in: "I interrupt this program to bring you a special message. I am the recording engineer making this transcription and I am using this means as a last resort to expose a vicious KECA racket...
This is the fundamental weakness of Mr. Lamprecht's solutions. He assumes that a religion can give up these "trappings" and substitute objective knowledge of its rich heritage for a partisan devotion to its cause. But the result of this would be a metamorphosis in the philosophical as well as the practical realms. Neither the "covenant of Judaism" nor "the genius of Catholicism" nor "the adventure of Protestantism" could continue in any recognizable form...
After that the House was swept for hours by the gales of partisan debate...
...they can take a crying baby from its mother's breast and kill it, for fear of the Germans who are searching for hidden survivors. The book ends, symbolically, with a group of ghetto men, liberated from their trap, meeting the new kind of Jew, the suntanned fighting partisan, in the open country far outside the city...
...hand fakery ineffective as his line kept caving in. His net yardage from scrimmage was minus 43; Celeri's was almost as bad-minus 39. After the game, LeBaron made the day's most sensible observation: "There's no substitute for a coach." But the highly partisan crowd was happy; LeBaron...