Word: rifted
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...blame for our failure must lie fairly and squarely on the U.S. The Truman Administration, by its refusal to share atomic secrets, abruptly ended the Churchill-Roosevelt understanding about the full exchange of information. All too tragically the rift between us is widening. There seems to be a sneaking satisfaction in this country that the Russians have again licked the U.S., and more than a sneaking satisfaction in the U.S. about the continuing decline of the British Empire...
...some 20 Communist groups aimed at separating Poland's youth from their faith, he cried: "I tell you. you Caesars, you will bow to your God, and you will serve only Him." With new national elections coming next month. Gomulka was obviously anxious to avoid too open a rift with the church. As a gesture of conciliation, Poland's alarmed party bosses disbanded a Communist-sponsored club of 300 priests friendly to the regime...
...reserved for whites, Cavendish-Bentinck's candidates swamped the moderate backers of Kenya Farmer Michael Blundell, who had sided with the British in advocating cooperation between the black majority (6,000,000) and Kenya's white minority (65,000). Blundell's fellow whites in the rich Rift Valley bombarded him with eggs and tomatoes at village rallies and hanged him in effigy. But in the general election, blacks were voting for the first time on the same list with whites, and their votes pushed Blundell to victory over Cavendish-Bentinck...
Chasing a fancy butterfly in the green wilds of Tanganyika 50 years ago. a German entomologist named Kattwinkel tumbled off a rocky ledge and nearly killed himself. When he regained his senses, he found himself in an anthropologist's dream world: an erosion-created rift with layer after layer of fossils, bones and ancient artifacts. The find was named Olduvai Gorge, and Kattwinkel's heirs ever since have been scrambling up and down its sun-baked sides in search of clues to man's earliest awakening...
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was not on the front bench to hear his son's attack on his government. But next day the Prime Minister was ready when at question time a Labor M.P. slyly asked if there was "a rift in the family or something...