Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost perfunctorily, Boss Flynn picked a middle-aged lawyer named Karl Propper, who looks a little like Movie Comic Hugh Herbert. Democratic chieftains, watching the A.L.P. splinter over the Wallace third-party candidacy, figured Propper as a shoo-in. Republicans merely went through the motions: they nominated an unknown building contractor and the G.O.P. boss left town for a Florida vacation...
...very moment when the Dail met to elect a Taoiseach (literally: leader) , Dev had been hopeful. Of the splinter parties which had ended his Fianna Fall majority, he cracked scornfully: "Many a chisel has lost chips, but did you ever see anybody collecting the chips and trying to make another chisel out of them...
...newly-elected 40-odd-man national board encompasses all of labor minus the Harry Bridges-led splinter of the CIO as well as the young men in the Democratic Party and the now minority-representation of independent liberal citizens. Here enter Reinhold Niebuhr, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ex-housing expediter Wilson Wyatt, and movie star Ronald Reagan. Eleanor Roosevelt looms a power behind the scenes. This total coalition's impressiveness stems from the fact that it is influence mobilized with the sole immediate political end of isolating Henry Wallace. To do this job and to elect congressmen who meet "progressive...
...nation's clamorous early years, parties grew, split and withered like excited amoebas. Hamilton's Federalists and Jefferson's Republicans faded away, and the Whigs and the Democrats took their place. Splinter parties were formed on such frenetic issues as a fanatical prejudice against Masons (the Anti-Masons), or a dislike for foreign-born citizens (the Americans or "Know-Nothings," who carried six states in 1854, captured 22% of the popular vote in 1856 for Millard Fillmore). In 1844, the anti-slavery Liberty Party, with a piddling 62,300 votes, drew enough Whig support in New York...
Many also remembered something else: the feeling of scarcely admitted relief. On Pearl Harbor Day, the line between right & wrong had been drawn with the sharp definition of a bomb splinter. There had been only one possible course which Americans could accept without reservation. Last week, as 1947 drew to a close, many wondered if anything could ever seem so terrifyingly simple again...