Word: split
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three-Way Split...
...repressive. The probable result of this three-way split, contends Hamilton, is that the civil rights action will continue to "center in the local communities and not at the national level in the next few years...
Exercise in Frustration. The latest crisis was precipitated by a split in Italy's fracture-prone Socialist Party. Until 1966 the Socialists functioned as two separate parties, Giuseppe Saragat's moderates and Pietro Nenni's leftists. They then closed ranks and served as one party in the center-left coalition. But last July they broke up again over the question of cooperating with the Communists in local governments. The moderates, who wanted to stay clear of the Communists, reconstituted themselves as the Social Democrats; Nenni's faction, figuring that the Communists had to be reckoned with...
...condemned to sit with the transistor and stuff on the shore while He the Eternal Blond One went on oddysseys. No captain's widow Girl, scanning the sea for sight of his erect from gliding in from time to time. No idle searching long strands pulled forward for split ends, oh no not her. Girl, a surfer-queen herself who went where mortals feared to go, a jolly Loch Nesser showing the visiting team all the joys of the western floodtide...
...inquires anyway. Yes sister, he says. That was the first, you know. And so groovy. But now, in this dry world, the young brave needs to drink water, so Merilee gives to him her knowledge of where the car and the canteen are. Turn left at the split pine, and right at the stump. And maybe put on your trousers before you go down to the road...