Word: splintering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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There had been a discussion about whether to take over University Hall at one of the SDS meetings, but there hadn’t been a decision to actually do it. The people taking it over that day were a splinter group. Since we had been thinking of a takeover, we did have six demands—then we added two more to make eight at the takeover. Three of them had to do with kicking ROTC off campus. I don’t remember them exactly, I have a shirt at home with them all silk-screened onto...
...vowed to fight the bills in parliament where, with the support of a splinter party, it holds a razor-thin majority. Party chairman Lien Chan blasted the proposed legislation as an act of "political liquidation" designed to deflect attention away from Taiwan's stalled economy and Chen's inability to establish meaningful dialogue with the nation's chief adversary, China...
...overthrow the A.N.C., was discovered at a farm some 170 km north of Johannesburg. And 3 weeks before that an abandoned truck filled with arms, ammunition and explosives was found in South Africa's North West province. Police say a meeting of the Farmers' Force, the right-wing splinter group suspected of being behind the plot, was planned in the area. But the gathering was called off when members learned that the police were on to them. A local Afrikaans physician, Lets Pretorius, was arrested - the truck was registered in his name - for alleged contravention of the Internal Security...
...While Seyfarth and Hamden splinter off to investigate the Pfoho option, Sprow heads to Quincy for more “pre-gaming,” as she calls it. FM wonders when the freakin’ game starts. She is joined by Merritt R. Baer ’06, who is a born Saturday night leader. “I follow the smell of alcohol over the sound of music,” she explains. The Quincy scene at 10:30 is mellow at best, despite the incessant and spurned invitations from the classy hockey jocks of room...
...someone in the major leagues will bat .406 again but never in as dramatic a fashion as Williams did: hitting 6 for 8 in a season-ending doubleheader. The Splendid Splinter was, indeed, splendid. MEL TANSILL Catonsville...