Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Keep Out of Politics." The Turkish army has long scrupulously observed the admonition of the late great Kemal Ataturk that the army should stay out of partisan politics. But it also remembered that Ataturk charged it with guarding the constitution. Its younger officers had watched with growing uneasiness as Menderes cut down critics and harassed the opposition Republican Party headed by Ismet Inonu, ex-President and longtime comrade-in-arms of Ataturk himself. Two months ago, Menderes directed the army to stop Inonu from going on a political barnstorming trip to Kayseri. The major ordered to halt Inonu...
...floor of the U.S. Senate last week, the Republican minority leader rose in partisan wrath. "Well-placed, well-timed torpedo!" cried Illinois' Senator Everett Dirksen, hotly declaring that Democrat Adlai E. Stevenson had helped Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev wreck the summit conference by presenting Khrushchev with the thought that he could ignore Ike and deal better with the next U.S. President...
...Confusing Zigzags." Adlai Stevenson started it. In a Washington interview, he angrily blamed the summit crisis on Administration bungling of the U-2 affair. Desperately, Johnson tried to keep the party peace ("This is definitely a time for America to unite"), but a partisan murmuration had already begun. Leading the rebel yell was Johnson's own majority whip, Montana's Mike Mansfield, who predicted a congressional investigation. "At the proper time," Mansfield promised, "we shall find out what lies beneath the confusing zigzags of official pronouncements of the past fortnight...
With civil rights out of the way. Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress trained their verbal artillery on one another in readiness for a partisan election-year battle. Republicans rallied around President Eisenhower's black-ink budget; Democrats pushed forward under the banner of welfare legislation...
Five Branded Women (Dino De Laurentiis; Paramount). "I did not loave a German," the proud beauty (Silvana Mangano) sneers at a stern chief (Van Heflin) of the Yugoslav partisans. "I loaved a man!" But the partisans aren't having any of that. They have already mutilated the German sergeant (Steve Forrest) Silvana was committing treason with, and they are obviously determined to cut her up too. A grimy partisan approaches her with scissors drawn. Van twists her arms behind her back. Her bosom heaves. A horrible thought flashes across the spectator's mind. Then they...