Word: fractioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indiscriminately misled the public by words and deeds, resulting in a very, very difficult situation . . . Because of his disturbance of public sentiments . . . public antagonism became so serious he needed protection." Actually, in a land where Syngman Rhee controls not only the police but the press, only a tiny fraction of South Koreans knew of Chough's audacious stand...
...What has always been the most curious to us is the undoubted fact that a number of Communists in government has never been more than a handful, a fraction of the numbers which have been assaulting France and Italy for years in vain. . . . It is natural to be troubled by the idea of foreign agents in one's government, but . . . it is well, now and then, to apply the test of pragmatism to vexed ideological issues: an Everest of feathers may turn out to weight only a few pounds...
...persuaded it to grant the pension increase. He had another gain, achieved just in the nick of time. The autoworkers cost-of-living increases (or decreases) were switched from the old to the new cost-of-living index. Last week, the new index, which comprises more items, edged a fraction lower, while the old index dropped 1.1%-enough to have caused a 2? hourly wage cut under the autoworkers' old contract...
...shippers are all boosters for the St. Lawrence Seaway. They know that what they are hauling represents only a small fraction of the overseas trade that could be carried on by Midwestern cities. One company, the Dutch Oranje line, is building a combination passenger-freighter which it hopes will be the pacesetter if the seaway project goes through...
...admiral who could boast of having served with Nelson at Trafalgar would still have known only a fraction of the history of war at sea. But, like a considerable group of still serviceable flying officers, silver-haired, cigar-smoking General Nathan Farragut Twining has personally navigated sloops, junks and frigates of the air. When he was named to succeed General Hoyt Vandenberg as chief of staff of the jet-age Air Force last week, he had already lived, airwise, almost since the beginning of time, and had participated actively in three of four major eras of warfare...