Word: split
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some CLE staff members contend that the five lawyers were dismissed for their radical political views. "There is simply not a liberal-conservative-radical split here," Kirp replied...
...houses in Leawood are more than 40 years old, but the town only began to blossom in the late 1930s when the Kroh Bros, real estate company undertook a major development. Now there are nearly 11,000 residents in just over 3,000 houses-ranch-styles and split-levels with a good sprinkling of two-stories. The lawns are spacious, and there is often a paddock with two or three horses gamboling about. Some of the original houses that once sold for less than $25,000 would probably be worth twice that today; newer houses range from...
...momentum of change built in Evanston until it nearly split the town in two last year. Evanston has a black population of 16%: some are fourth-generation Evanstonians, descendants of blacks who moved there as domestic servants a century ago. The blacks were at the center of a battle over school integration, allied with liberal whites behind School Superintendent Gregory Coffin's implementation of a plan to distribute blacks equally among the city's 16 elementary schools (TIME, March 9, 1970). Coffin became anathema to conservatives and was forced out after integration was completed. Evanston's grammar...
...behind the impending split is Sheik Mujibur ("Mujib") Rahman, the unchallenged political leader of the more populous, poverty-stricken, eastern segment. "Pakistan, as it stands today, is finished," Mujib told TIME Correspondent Dan Coggin in Dacca last week. "There is no longer any hope of a settlement." He urged that East and West Pakistan adopt separate constitutions, and that his followers refuse to pay taxes to the central government, which is situated in the West. He seemed on the brink of an outright declaration of independence for what he calls Bangla Desh (Bengal State), which would become the world...
...instead of developing and discovering our own. We lose all sense of ourselves as human beings-because we were never given the chance to explore ourselves, to define ourselves in our own terms. Or if we haven't lost all sense of ourselves, we find a greater and greater split between what we feel to be real inside and what we are told is real outside. We keep on playing the game, their game, until we find out that there's no way to win, there's no way to fight alone. We can give...