Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Better built, more attractive homes, more stylish and durable clothes could also be readily available. With precise enthusiasm, Prophet Moulton gives such detailed examples of potential progress as non-warp, non-scratch, non-splinter pleasure boats, and plastic violins which might all but rival the Stradivarius in tone...
...Wallace as a combination singing cowboy and vice-presidential candidate in last November's election, announced the results of a bit of deductive thought. Interviewed last week on the Meet the Press radio show, he said that he had concluded that the "American people do not want a splinter party." In danger of becoming a splinter himself if he didn't get Democratic Party support for re-election next year, Glen added melodiously that he was no longer "associated" in any way with H. Wallace...
First, he joined a newly formed splinter sect, the "Presbyterian Church of America." In less than a year he broke away, to form his own "Bible Presbyterian Church" (present membership about 8,000). In 1941 he founded the American Council of Christian Churches, which now numbers 18 small sects...
Majority Leader John McCormack wrathfully replied to Hebert. What right did Hebert have to complain, McCormack wanted to know, since "he actively and openly supported a splinter party of the Democratic Party . . . Only through tolerance is he sitting here as a member of the Democratic Party...
...would take over the power-and-flood-control operations of a fistful of such federal agencies as the Army Engineers and the Department of the Interior. It would coordinate these activities into a pattern that is now significantly lacking in the Columbia Valley; it would replace the timid splinter programs of the federal bureaus with a unified plan on the order of the one that worked so well in the Tennessee Valley...