Word: splinter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last Gasp. The DeCrow group, which took 25 of 34 NOW offices in the October elections, regards Womansurge as a splinter faction of aging professional women willing to accept token advances and avoid new issues. "It's the last gasp of a very small group with a condescending view of what feminism is like," says DeCrow. "If you mention you want to change the behavior of men or if you mention gay rights, they're frightened away...
...provides a focus for worker unrest and serves to unite wage-earners in a common struggle, thereby drawing attention away from the wage policy, which could otherwise prove divisive. It also gives workers some control over technological development, ameliorating the effects of structural change. Finally, it tends to splinter the non-socialist opposition parties, with the Liberal and Center Parties often supporting many of the specific reforms (especially in matters of health and safety) with only the Conservatives consistently voting against the reforms...
Trying to change the attitudes of people comfortable in their middle ages is like trying to remove a deeply-imbedded splinter from your big toe: the process is inevitable, slow and always painful...
Through her involvement with PIN, Sara Jane Moore soon became a kind of radical groupie. During the next 18 months, as she wandered through the small, semiclandestine parties, splinter groups and cells that make up "the Movement" in the Bay Area, Moore turned from enchanted novice into an FBI informer and then into a Marxist convert, only to be ostracized as a despised pariah after she confessed her informant role. The atmosphere of conspiracy and danger provided a sense of action and purpose that her life was lacking. "I was really nervous, but I was intrigued by the whole thing...
ALMOST A YEAR after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus the United States is still reluctant to focus on the reason behind the snarl in the eastern Mediterranean: a foreign army has deprived a republic--albeit just a splinter of land--of its independence and territorial integrity. When Turkish forces began landing on Cyprus last July 20, the official American response glibly called these maneuvers minor military actions. A corridor of land spanning Nicosia, the Cypriot capital, and Kyrania, another large northern city, had been taken before the Turks agreed to rechannel their pursuit of, as they phrased it, "political...