Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...yacht of Shipping Lord Aristotle Socrates Onassis. Bound for a leisurely Mediterranean cruise, the yacht sailed down the Adriatic Sea. dropped anchor near a retreat of Yugoslavia's President Tito. Going ashore, Sir Winston rekindled his spirits by reliving some World War II battles with his erstwhile partisan ally...
...backer.* Lytton simmered in the control booth as Sahl and guests enthusiastically reviewed the merits of Adlai Stevenson on the air, finally barged into the studio and woofed into the microphone that the show was not "a Stevenson rally." Complained Sahl: "I have been accused of being everything except partisan. I have never been part of a group large enough to be called a minority." The sponsor later apologized, and Sahl merely dubbed the show Bart Lytton Prevents...
...grabs an arm or shoulder in a bruising grip, and a hint of the carnival snake-oil seller shows in his voice. His fellow Senators joke about the lavish vanity of his tailoring and his baronial Senate office?but they respect him, too. Last June the non-partisan Congressional Quarterly polled Senators and Representatives on who they thought would be the Democratic Party's "strongest possible" presidential candidate; of the 220 members who replied, 54% named Lyndon Johnson, only 20% named Jack Kennedy (Adlai Stevenson came in third with...
...party or in other parties who might come to this high office. Mistakes have been made?and inexcusable ones. But my interest?and I believe the interest of most of my fellow Americans?is in curing those mistakes, in avoiding those mistakes, not in exploiting them for political partisan gains...
...Rome, a crowd including 50 parliamentary Deputies led by tough, balding Communist Giancarlo Pajetta and Republican Ludovico Camangi marched to Porta San Paolo to lay a wreath on the Partisan Plaque, which commemorates Italian resistance to the Fascists during World War II. The celere, under orders to permit no demonstrations of any kind, quickly moved to disperse the mob. The crowd charged the police, heaving bricks and wielding staves. Then a troop of mounted carabinieri rode into...