Word: splinterized
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week, Comrade di Vittorio and his CGIL faced a rising rival, the CISL-Confederazione Italiana Sindacate Lavoratori (Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions). CISL (pronounced chisel) started growing two years ago as a Christian Democrat splinter of the Communist union, has grown steadily and courageously, chiseled deeply into Red trade union strength. Last month the Communists called a waterfront strike against U.S. arms shipments. CISL unionists, under police guard, broke it by unloading American weapons at Naples...
Europe's Face. Britain's basic problem is that the government is spending more for welfare services . . . than the country can currently afford . . . In France the fundamental problems are political, social and psychological, rather than economic . . . Its political setup encourages weak governments, splinter parties, selfish factionalism . . . Whether France would fight unitedly against Russia if a hot war should come is doubtful . . . Italy is desperately poor...
...Splinter groups meanwhile formed in the ranks. The United Nations Council, the World Federalists, and the Students for Democratic Action all organized within the League for Democracy. The entire League concerned itself with the Cambridge elections, the Marshall Plan Rally, and the activities of the meat packers' union...
Pieces of glass and wood from the sill of the window of Thayer 46 littered the ground. The force of the explosion was enough to splinter the entire sill, also knocking out a piece of wood panelling inside the room...
...good enough to win a Pulitzer Prize for general excellence. The Herald's biggest circulation asset is Sportwriter Bill Cunningham, whose orotund mastery of the cliche is often a frontpage delight to readers. Wrote Cunningham from the Florida training camps last week: "Theodore Samuel Williams, the quondam splendid splinter, caught one squarely upon the schnozzola and propelled it in a spectacular parabola all the way into the unchartered [sic'] reaches beyond the right center field fence...