Word: factionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while, pilots and engineers argued about the wing control. One faction held that when the pistol grip was pulled backward, the wings should fold backward in concert. Others insisted that since all pilots are trained to push engine throttles forward when they want more speed, they might get confused at a dangerous moment if they were compelled to pull the wing control backward for the same effect. The second faction won. Now, with a plane that can fly to any place in the world in a single day, F-111 pilots will still be handling controls as familiar and reliable...
...Dean Burch himself sent a long, hopeful letter to committee members. "Let me assure you," wrote Burch, "that my interest in continuing to serve as national chairman is not simply a personal one. My concern is not financial, nor even primarily a loyalty to a particular leader or 'faction' of the Republican Party. I am dedicated to just three things: the unity, the strength and the achievements of the Republican Party, across the board and throughout the nation...
Tucson to make a strategic withdrawal and allow his party to settle peaceably on a chairman who stands for more than one faction of the Party...
...universe created? All at once, and billions of years ago, says the "big bang" faction of cosmologists, and not a single atom has been created since that explosion. "Continual creation" cosmologists take a different tack. They believe that the matter in the universe was created gradually and is still being created, probably as neutrons or hydrogen atoms in the lonely spaces between the galaxies. Not quite satisfied with either theory, Professor William H. McCrea of the University of London's Royal Holloway College now offers an improvement on continual creation. In the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society...
...whole string of cliches has come into being since the Republican Party's defeat in the November elections. A minority faction grabbed control of the minority party. A candidate outside the you-know-what of American politics antagonized millions of independent and Republican voters. The only solution is for the Republican Party to turn back toward the center, starting right down at the precinct level, to unify the party around a man like Ike Eisenhower or Dick Nixon, to present constructive alternatives to Democratic proposals, to get young energetic candidates...