Word: split
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...split by his pre-election denunciation of the President, last week split wider. Powerful, pro-Roosevelt groups, formally and loudly called upon Lewis to make his word good, step down. William Leader, of the C. I. O. hosiery workers, wired: "Well, John. . . . What are you waiting...
Ribs crushed, fabric ripped and afire, the airliner split in two, spilled three of its passengers into space, rocketed the others to the bottom of the bay. Across the water the De Havilland fluttered spinning to earth, shorn of its wing. In a final dive it smashed through the roof of a house, hurled its pilot, World War I Aviator Colin Abbot, into the street below...
There are five different ways to break a leg. They range all the way from a "greenstick" fracture, where the bone is cracked half through and split longitudinally, to a compound fracture, where the shattered bone juts through the skin. No matter what the break, treatment is always the same: first setting and immobilization, then proper exercise...
Money Will Be Split...
...behind the Fascist lines with the help of a guerrilla band--which he knows will result in his death and probably that of some of his helpers. Constantly he berates, wheedles, consoles and prods--himself. Under the inhuman, cracking pressure of events, his personality is more and more dangerously split, and is healed at the final page only by the certainty of his death and separation from his beloved, the Spanish girl Maria. Unfortunately, last-minute recoveries like Robert Jordan's are pretty well confined to books, while his discase afflicts, to some degree, everyone who reads a newspaper...