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In a single week, there might be committees, caucuses, colloquiums, congresses, and conventions variously coming together to establish codes, set courses of action, levy complaints, and generally clamor about the world's oldest problems in its newest nomenclature.† (source)

Since her ailment compromised the safety of the others, we took up the problem in caucus.† (source) Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place, 1971

The festival encompassed all of Islam, not merely Iran, and, therefore, political rhetoric this day was confined to isolated caucuses of Iranians who chattered happily about the ayatollah's successful attempt to centralize power. i remained aloof from those discussions, socializing instead with my wide circle of women friends who constituted a United Nations in miniature.† (source)

We caucused among ourselves and lobbied all the residents of the house, and within weeks elected our own House Committee, defeating the upperclassmen.† (source)

"There was no caucus and the opinion still holds," the brother with the pipe said.† (source) Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952

They saw the unwarranted police raids on black political caucuses because these caucuses refused to allow white reporters.† (source)

To their dismay, at a preliminary Republican caucus, six courageous Republicans indicated that the evidence so far introduced was not in their opinion sufficient to convict Johnson under the Articles of Impeachment.† (source)

The caucus held in Iowa is very important for determining the next president of the United States because it gives one candidate momentum.

"Soooo," Brother Jack said, looking from face to face, "there's been a caucus and decisions have been made.† (source) Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952

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No meeting, but just the same there has been a caucus and decisions have been reached even before the event is finished.† (source) Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952

He was re-elected to the Senate by an overwhelming majority, later to become Chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus, then Secretary of the Interior and finally Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.† (source)

And when Congress reassembled, Calhoun was successful in forcing the Democratic caucus to strip Benton of all his committees except Foreign Affairs, on which he was left only for purposes of a trumped-up story that Atchison had graciously interceded for him.† (source)

As the congress drew to a close, I attended a caucus to plan the future of the clubs.† (source) Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945

His life was one of caucuses and conventions, party circulars and speeches, requests, recommendations, stratagems, schemes, and ambitions.† (source)

Be off with you, my boy, and play with your caucuses and leading articles and historic parties and great leaders and burning questions and the rest of your toys.† (source)

And that gentleman was so determined to ruin Edward, who was the chairman of the Tory caucus, or whatever it is—that the poor dear sufferer had the very devil of a time.† (source) Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier, 1915

Not only would the Nawab Bahadur and others be angry, but the Government of India itself also watches—and behind it is that caucus of cranks and cravens, the British Parliament.† (source) E.M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924

The people had tasted this new joy; and, as we could not hope to suppress newspapers now,—no, not by the strongest party,—neither then could king, prelate, or puritan,—alone or united, suppress an organ, which was ballad, epic, newspaper, caucus, lecture, Punch,[530] and library, at the same time.† (source)

'What I was going to say,' said the Dodo in an offended tone, 'was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.'† (source)

'What IS a Caucus-race?' said Alice; not that she wanted much to know, but the Dodo had paused as if it thought that SOMEBODY ought to speak, and no one else seemed inclined to say anything.† (source)

Moreover, it has given birth to two derivatives of like quality, both unknown in America—/caucusdom/, meaning machine control, and /caucuser/, meaning a machine politician.† (source)

What did those tinkers in the city hall at their caucus meeting decide about the Irish language?† (source) James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922

Most of these new words, of course, produced derivatives, for example, /to stack hay/, /to shingle/, /to shuck/ (/i. e./, corn), /to trail/ and /to caucus/.† (source)

Many beside /caucus/ were introduced by Joseph Chamberlain, a politician skilled in American campaign methods and with an American wife to prompt him.† (source)

[8] /To stump/, in the form of /stump-oratory/, is in Carlyle's "Latter-Day Pamphlets," /circa/ 1850, and /caucus/ appears in his "Frederick the Great;"[9] though, as we have seen on the authority of Ware, it did not come into general use in England until ten years later.† (source)

He established firmly the native origin of a number of words now in universal use in America—/e. g./, /backwoodsman/, /breadstuffs/, /caucus/, /clapboard/, /sleigh/ and /squatter/—and of such familiar derivatives as /gubernatorial/ and /dutiable/, and he worked out the genesis of not a few loan-words, including /prairie/, /scow/, /rapids/, /hominy/ and /barbecue/.† (source)

The Rev. William Gordon, in his History of the Rise and Independence of the United States, Including the Late War, published in London in 1788, said that "more than fifty years ago Mr. Samuel Adams' father and twenty others, one or two from the north end of the town [Boston], where the ship business is carried on, used to meet, make a /caucus/, and lay their plans for introducing certain persons into places of trust and power."† (source)

Words "introduced from the necessity of our situation, in order to express new ideas." a. Words "connected with and flowing from our political institutions," as /selectman/, /presidential/, /congressional/, /caucus/, /mass-meeting/, /lynch-law/, /help/ (for /servants/). b. Words "connected with our ecclesiastical institutions," as /associational/, /consociational/, /to fellowship/, /to missionate/. c. Words "connected with a new country," as /lot/, /diggings/, /betterments/,…† (source)

The first caucuses, it would appear, were held in a caulkers' shop in Boston, and were called /caulkers' meetings/.† (source)

In England it means the managing committee of a party or fraction—something corresponding to our national committee, or state central committee, or steering committee, or to the half-forgotten congressional caucuses of the 20's.† (source)

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