Word: split
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...conspiracy. He never recognized, even when the world revolution failed to materialize, that most of his plotting was futile. His Fourth International (formed in Manhattan in 1928 by three expelled members of the Communist Party) proclaimed itself the party of the real workers' revolution, but it was split by schisms, numbered less than 5,000 members. Trotsky still believed the revolt of the workers would succeed. The force of that illusion made him a greater man than Joseph Stalin. It made him the man who did more to shake the world in his time than any except Lenin...
...sake of bilking his small-town cronies. His wife (Myrna Loy) walks through these comic revels as cool as a julep, never quite understanding the sudden transformation of the husband she was about to divorce. The reappearance of cinema's No. 1 man-&-wife team results in split-second timing of some of the sauciest dialogue since the Hays office eased the ban on innuendo...
...Most persons think of ballistics as a simple microscopic comparison of a few bullet irregularities with grooves in gun barrels. To Dr. Wadsworth this is "ridiculous." Any two scratches, he claims, can be "matched." He showed his colleagues a case full of slugs of a thousand different shapes, flattened, split, crumpled. Said he: "No two bullets fired from the same gun are ever exactly alike...
...shops at Croydon and many a neighboring house. On Aug. 16 they stepped up their pace to 2,500 planes (counting repeaters) and announced a "special'' armada of some 750 planes, steered by crack pilots, to make the first actual attempt on great sprawling London. This armada split, half aiming at the London docks and Woolwich Arsenal on the east, the other half aiming at munitions stores on the city's southwestern edge. They hit the suburbs of Tilbury, North-fleet, Enfield, Barking, Purfleet, killed and maimed an unannounced number of civilians, did small military damage. Captive...
...African (DeBeers) diamond syndicate to step up its ailing sales with a U. S. advertising campaign. At Lumbo, Mozambique, his Imperial Airways flying boat smacked head-on into a jetty in landing, killing two passengers and flinging Adman Lauck against a bulkhead with such force that his pipe was split and a section driven an inch-deep into his tongue. Dumped into the harbor by a steward, he lost his life preserver, was rescued, later found the harbor was infested with sharks. Not until three months after he landed the $500,000 diamond account did he learn that his skull...