Word: fractionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rich for only one visit. In addition to the works described, there are sensitive flower paintings by Piet Mondriaan, known for his geometrical constructions, drawings by Matisse, and a powerful portraval of Christ and the Apostles by Rouault. In short, if the collection consisted of only a small fraction of the work now on exhibit, it would still well merit a visit...
...runners had built up a five-yard lead. Huvelle hung behind N..'s Mike Roberts until the final half-lap of the race. Then, to the cheers of an enthusiastic crowd, the stocky captain poured it on, caught Roberts with 15 yards to go, and beat him by a fraction to the finish...
...year exile in Prague. This time, said Raúl, Escalante had organized an anti-Castro movement that extended into several key government ministries, the University of Havana, the Academy of Sciences, several youth organizations and even the Central Committee itself. With his contacts, Escalante and his "micro-fraction" reportedly filched secret government documents and spread anti-Castro propaganda among both Cubans and foreign Communists, particularly the Russians...
...winter began in earnest, temperatures fell to 49° below zero. Frozen German corpses piled up like logs, many still clad in light uniforms. German rations ran out, and proud troops began to eat the flesh of horses, cats and rats. Hermann Goring's airlift brought only a fraction of the promised relief. The city's rubble grew so high that German tanks were unable to roll over it. Through it all, Hitler insisted that his generals stand firm, refusing to allow them to try to break out of the trap and save part of their army. Against...
...world is too much with us," wrote William Wordsworth in a famous sonnet, and Russell Baker echoes the poet three times a week in the New York Times. A funny place to do it, in a paper full of world news. But to Humorist Baker, 42, even a fraction of all the news that's fit to print is far too much. "The law of life," he writes, "is that there is almost always less happening than meets...