Word: splinterized
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...said, has gulled the 52 nations sharing in the police action in Korea. .Shrilled Wu to the 52, in a patent move to splinter the already divided U.N. majority: "Do not be taken in by the U.S., do not pull the chestnuts out of the fire for the U.S.-because . . . you must bear the consequences of your actions...
Britain's tiny Liberal Party split again last week. Three of the nine Liberal M.P.s voted with the Labor government to defeat a Liberal-backed Conservative amendment attacking Socialist housing plans. The minute splinter group abstained from two other votes, protesting against the Tory "practice of forcing a series of divisions purely for the sake of opposition, thereby artificially keeping in being a state of crisis." Cracked the Tory Daily Telegraph: "A unique case of splitting the atom without generating power...
Jerome S. Bruner, associate professor of Social Psychology, said that "Taft may win by a nose in Ohio but the important thing there is the disciplined work of labor. They have learned to avoid splinter groups and oppose effectively men with views they dislike...
...Since 1889, the first Cleveland Administration, when the Commissioner of Agriculture became Secretary and a member of the Cabinet. * Of a splinter sect, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter, Day Saints, which broke off from Brigham Young, refused to follow him to his promised land in Utah and ultimately settled down in Independence...
Contempt & Terror. CISL's leadership has had rough going. When the first Christian Democrat splinter appeared in CGIL, Comrade di Vittorio expelled its leaders with contempt, then applied terror...