Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Reagan, could impassion his audience without overwhelming oratory; he directed the style of his speech at the cameras, knowing from his showbiz experience that subtlety of gesture is more expressive than exaggeration. Furthermore, he used Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 in his address, implying that he, Reagan, was above partisan labels. And he concluded by asking America to bow its head in prayer--the implication being that he, Reagan, had not developed an overweening sense of vanity through the week of excessive praise and a schedule designed to make his victory more coronation than nomination...
...document was thick and windy, roughly 40,000 words of predictably partisan rhetoric. There was a perfunctory apology: "After four years in office, we Democrats have not solved all America's problems." But as it emerged from a 158-member committee in Washington, the Democratic platform for the 1980 presidential election blamed most of the country's problems on Jimmy Carter's predecessors: "Eight years of Republican politics [that] left this nation weak, rudderless and divided." The Republicans were handily accused of causing inflation, unemployment, continued dependence on foreign oil and even the current recession...
After the postponement came a round of partisan name calling on the house floor that raised doubts about whether ERA supporters could ever get the crucial two votes. Matijevich angrily accused Thompson of having "provided virtually nothing." Republican representatives booed noisily. The next day, Thomas Hanahan, a Democrat from rural McHenry, who once described feminists as "braless, brainless broads," accused ERA supporters of attempting to bribe waffling legislators with offers of big campaign contributions; he provided no evidence. Proponents accused him, in turn, of trying to frighten fence sitters into opposing the amendment...
Davis and Zaffuto put the Blue Jays back in front with one each. Meagher then added another to knot the match for the last time before Hopkins answered the roar of the partisan crowd and went out in front for good minutes later...
...Yugoslavia. An invading force from the Soviet Union, which would require 35 or more divisions, totaling more than 300,000 men, would have to take on a large-scale fight not only against the well-equipped 259,000-man Yugoslav army but also against the 3 million-member partisan militia. In addition, there would be the risk of causing a confrontation with the Western allies...