Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one morning last week, the heavy tread of a Chinese artillery barrage marched across a Korean hillside near the 38th parallel. Sitting in a slit trench, a U.S. private caught the blast of a shell exploding in front of him. A tiny, singing splinter drove through his skull and lodged in his brain. In the foggy depths of consciousness, the private heard his buddy screaming, "Medics, damn it! Medics...
...Pleven, 50, ex-businessman, ex-Premier and ex-Gaullist, who now leads an independent middle-of-the-road splinter party, at week's end agreed to take a crack at breaking the deadlock, eighth candidate since the election...
...tempered B.G. had blasted the General Zionists as a political aggregation of black-marketeers, the Orthodox bloc as fanatics, the Mapai as fellow travelers. Unless he swallowed some of his campaign oratory, his only possible partners in a new coalition would be such splinter groups as the Progressives (four seats), the pro-Mapai Arabs (five seats), the Mizrachi Religious Workers (eight seats), the Yemenites (one seat). Joined with them, B.G.'s Mapai could command a bare hold on the Parliament. In that case, Israel stood in danger of becoming, in Ben-Gurion's own phrase, "a second France...
...Second ("Social Democratic") International, founded by Karl Kautsky, George Plekhanov and others in Paris in 1889, which fell apart in World War I; the Third International (Comintern), set up by Lenin in Moscow in 1919 and officially dissolved by Stalin in 1943; the Fourth International, Leon Trotsky's splinter Communist party, which he set up in Mexico in 1938 after Stalin drove him out of Russia...
Third Force (including Socialists, Radicals, M.R.P. and splinter groups...