Word: schisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...constitution claimed a ringing victory when 75-percent approved the new government in a three day referendum, attracting 58-percent of the campus, a number of circumstances surrounding the referendum show it to have been much less. In fact, the vote indicates in several ways the wide schism separating the few involved in student government and the great number who aren't illuminating the primary problem the new government must deal with on the road to effectiveness...
...April 29, 1823 a board of overseers reported that "a schism of two years standing has been the occasion of disaffection and alienation among the members of the senior class, and has required, in some cases, the intervention of the immediate Government...
...schism between the pranksters and the informants deepened throughout the sophomore and junior years. As the unruly acts continued, and the administration received its reliable information, several students were suspended for idleness, disturbances, improper behavior, and "habitual negligence and dissipation...
Many Italian Communists believe the schism is irreversible. Giorgio Napolitano, leader of the Communist bloc in Parliament, said last week that the Pravda attack "represented such a violent, drastic condemnation that one cannot see how it could be reversed." Others still see some possibility of a future rapprochement. Said Camilla Ravera, 93, one of the last surviving founders of the Italian party: "This will be an episode, but in my life I have seen many of this type...
...journal in which the priest describes a Cambodia-based Soviet military project that could trigger World War III. The priest's journal is finally retrieved by a comely, red-haired reporter, Rita Macklin, who, unlike most other fictional red-haired reporters, is both credible and vulnerable. Schism, like his first novel, November Man, shows Bill Granger to be deft at high-wire suspense. His prose has the gritty tone of a Le Carre and a special feeling for a burned-out case...