Word: breakaway
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...Communist Party voted to dissolve, then resurrected itself as the Social Democratic Party. Tadeusz Fiszbach, a popular party leader who quit in 1981 to protest martial law, said a neo-Communist group had "no credibility," and formed a breakaway organization called the Union of Social Democracy...
...minutes after Doug Derraugh's second goal of the evening gave the Big Red a 2-0 lead at 7:08 of the second session, Roy stuffed Cornell center Joe Dragon on a breakaway...
...white community is also divided. Polls indicate that De Klerk is slightly ahead of the white population at large in pushing for reform. Fully 31% of whites voted for the breakaway Conservative Party, the bastion of the verkramptes, or ultraconservatives. They object to any form of power sharing and resist not just negotiations but all attempts to pare the laws of segregation. At worst, they talk of secession and partition, retreating to a smaller but still pure Afrikaner land where whites would dominate. While the conservatives probably cannot block De Klerk from pursuing reform, their reactionary attitudes...
When Cornell's Melissa Gambrell was penalized for delay of game with 23 seconds remaining in the second period, thing looked good for Harvard. But the tides turned quickly 10 seconds later, when Linda Campbell scored on a short-handed, unassisted breakaway, pushing the puck past Harvard junior netminder Gillian D'Souza...
...Joslin pointed the axe at the Big Green, scoring on a breakaway...