Word: splinter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excitement and crashes that sounded like thunder. And from the top-most bench, surrounded by many brutal and ugly Hanover maidens, sat Lady Grizzelda, crying for St. John. And one by one on the field, the knights fell from their horses. The rushes were so great that lances would splinter when they crashed with a shield. And blood streamed from everywhere, as the knights swung their swords with such violence that they cut through the armor clear to the skin...
Further, new elections would open up a number of controversies left over from last April. Muzorewa's rival Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole has charged that the elections were rigged, and one-time ally James Chikerema has split from the Bishop's United African Council party to form his own splinter faction. Quarrels about whether tribal loyalties unduly influenced some of Muzorewa's appointments are also certain to arise...
...into the U.S. last year, under a false passport - the I.R.A. hit man who has now been as signed to kill him. He describes the putative assassin as fortyish and bland-looking, the kind of lad who would lure his victim to a bar, buy him a drink, then splinter his skull and walk...
Graham Greene once noted with pride that a novelist has "a splinter of ice in the heart." In Testimony and Demeanor Casey demonstrates what one of his characters calls a "lawyer-like habit of being an objective observer in the vortex of other people's passions." Casey is not proud of his cold eye, however. Most of these stories are threaded by the narrator's regret about his role as watcher in the shallows...
...broadcast in the hope someone would recognize the voice. A Milan judge named Emilio Alessandrini identified it as that of the young professor, with whom he had dined on April 11, 1978, while Moro was still captive. Last January, Alessandrini was killed by terrorists belonging to a Red Brigades splinter group...