Word: disunion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When disunion has become a fixed and certain fact," wrote New York City's Democratic Mayor Fernando Wood to the city common council 18 days after South Carolina seceded from the Union in December 1860, "why may not New York disrupt the bands which bind her to a venal and corrupt master-to a people and a party that have plundered her revenues, attempted to ruin her commerce...
...trace in its flame the palmetto emblem of South Carolina. He had left his Virginia plantation, carrying with him a pike appropriated from John Brown's abolitionist band (its Ruffin-inscribed label: "Sample of the favors designed for us by our Northern brethren"), to see his dream of disunion come true. This-4:30 a.m.. April 12, 1861-was his great moment. Edmund Ruffin stepped proudly forward, pulled the lanyard of a columbiad and sent the first of some 600 rebel shells crashing into Fort Sumter; thus began the Civil...
Many workers want no part of either party and have quit the unions altogether. As the saying goes in labor circles: "The biggest union in France is the disunion of the unaffiliated." Almost 2,500,000 French men and women between the ages of 15 and 30 work in industry, earn pitifully small salaries, live in slums and have little hope for the future. Social security, introduced on a large scale by the Popular Front government in 1936 specifically to benefit workers, has in a paradoxical way also contributed to a split between youth and its elders in the labor...
...This has been a fateful week in the history of American Government," said Stevenson. "We are witnessing the bitter harvest from the seeds of slander, defamation and disunion planted in the soil of our democracy . . . Where we looked forward to a nation united, we have a people divided. Where we expected candor, we have misrepresentation. Where we expected firm leadership, we have timidity...
British-American disunion is deeply significant. Since the cold war began, the anti-Communist side has had the preponderant power-military, economic and moral-but superiority has never been exercised to register proportionate gains in cold-war politics. The Communists have usually had the initiative. When they lost it, they took strong defensive positions and encouraged dissension among the anti-Communist coalition...