Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Legislative Assembly of East Pakistan, which is divided from West Pakistan and Karachi by 1,000 miles of India, the local Moslem Leaguers were swept out of power. The league won only some 3% of the available constituencies. The league's principal opposition, a "United Front" of Moslem splinter parties and assorted left-wingers, won about...
Paying Saragat. Then Scelba turned to the job of measuring out the high price the 264 Christian Democrats had to pay to win the few (38) but crucial Parliament votes of three splinter parties of the democratic center. Most essential to Scelba's success, and therefore the hardest bargainer, was Giuseppe Saragat, the wavery leader of the Social Democrats. When Pietro Nenni sold out Italian Socialism to the Communists in 1947, Saragat founded a rump party of anti-Communist Socialists. Though his party's strength was cut in half at last summer's elections, Saragat...
...ready for Japanese rearmament and a close defense alignment with the U.S. The non-Communist left, which opposes rearmament, is growing stronger in the Diet; Yoshida's conservative Liberal Party is not big enough for a majority alone. Seven weeks ago Yoshida brought the Progressive Party (a conservative splinter group) back into line on rearmament. Then the Fox turned to a group of conservatives headed by a:ling Ichiro Hatoyama, who once presided over the party Yoshida now runs...
...symbolic of a clean sweep that overtook Germany's whole political household in the huge (86% of all eligible voters) turnout of last week's general election. With one sweep of the electoral broom, some 28 million German voters had pushed aside all the troublesome, totalitarian splinter groups (including Communists and Neo-Nazis) that clutter most European politics, giving Germany alone of Europe's nations a workable two-party Parliament in the pattern of Britain...
...bitterness of the disillusioned sabras was increased by the immigrants from Europe's cities, with their preference for selling ice cream at street-corner stalls to clearing rocks from the hillside. Splinter groups began to form: the intellectual "Canaanites" who urged severing all relations with non-Israeli Jews and wrote anti-religious poems; the would-be expatriates who wanted to leave the country and live among non-Jews; the aggressive nationalists who sneered at the "spinelessness" of those who had marched unresisting into Hitler's gas chambers...