Word: schism
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...latent persecution complex, the conversion of a dispute over the qualifications of two individuals into a confrontation between the Executive and Legislative branches, the harshness of the President's tone ?all these were the ingredients of a potentially historic breach. If the President persists in his course, the schism could rival Woodrow Wilson's deadlock with the "little band of willful men" in the Senate who opposed U.S. participation in the League of Nations. It is also reminiscent of F.D.R.'s campaigning against Senators who had opposed his plan to pack the Supreme Court with Justices friendly...
...apart in the imminent encounter, even when we insist that the remarks about the moratorium and the mobilization by the former governor of this state and by the Vice-President are, because of the eminence of these spokesmen of administration policy, a more serious aggravation of the frightening moral schism in our society than the introduction of Vietcong symbols by youthful extremists on our side...
After a bitter internecine quarrel, the party's executive committee was split into two warring factions, the process of government was all but paralyzed, and a few unhappy chieftains even threatened to expel Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from the party. Even if a complete schism is somehow averted, which looks doubtful, the Congress Party already has lost much of its old unity. Dissension within the party is certain to jar India's volatile and increasingly fragmented political scene...
...Syndicate is threatening to use its control over the party machinery to force through a censure motion against Indira. Some Syndicate members favor the more drastic step of trying to expel her from the party. The looming schism poses many questions about what might happen next in Indian politics. One possibility: Indira could form a coalition between her wing of the party and the Communists and thus remain Prime...
After four decades as archfoe of liberal Protestantism, the Rev. Carl McIntire, 63, has proved that he has a rare gift: everything he touches turns to schism. Contention has dogged him since his seminary days, when he joined a fundamentalist rebellion against liberalizing trends within the Presbyterian Church. Later, he split with fellow rebels to form his own sect, the Bible Presbyterian Church-and then his own church split yet again. Defections have periodically shaken the ranks of his American Council of Christian Churches (A.C.C.C.) and more recently his International Council of Christian Churches (I.C.C.C.), organizations that Mclntire formed...