Word: split
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away from the staging area and began firing tear-gas canisters at the crowd. The Guardsmen moved about 100 yards toward the assembly and fired gas again. A few students picked up canisters and threw them back, but they fell short of the troops. The mists of stinging gas split the crowd. Some students fled toward Johnson Hall, a men's dormitory, and were blocked by the L-shaped building. Others ran between Johnson and nearby Taylor Hall...
Small groups split off into adjoining rooms to discuss the M.I.T. instrumentation labs, the role of the CRR. and the CFIA...
...question of militancy versus non-violence was one of the controversies at the heart of the Strike Committee split. After a mass meeting of 1000 persons voted for non-violent action Sunday night, the Strike committee voted Monday night to take militant action against the CFIA today...
Genteel. The Texas Democratic Party long ago split into two bitterly feuding camps. Yarborough, 66, relies on a New Dealish grass-roots coalition of labor, liberals, East Texas blue-collar workers, blacks and Mexican Americans. This formula has kept him in the Senate for 13 years. Son of an East Texas farmer, the rural-oriented Yarborough is folksy and stubborn. Probably the South's most liberal Senator, he is a pariah among the state's conservative oil, banking and commercial interests. Recently he infuriated some of his backers by voting against the Supreme Court nomination of a Southerner...
...withdrawing from the Curious (Yellow) cases, Justice Douglas avoided involvement in a court-splitting headache. Indeed, the film has already split courts across the country. It has been shown m more than 125 communities without legal challenge; courts from New Jersey to New Mexico have approved it. But other judges, in such places as Boston, Baltimore, Kansas City...