Word: splinterable
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Unlikely as the "grand coalition" appeared, it was an unnerving thought for the Free Democrats, the splinter group in Parliament that had allied itself with the old man in the past. "We are going over there and lay it on the line," cried a Free Democrat chieftaifi. "Do they think they can negotiate with both of us at the same time?" It was an emotional meeting, but Free Democratic Party Leader Erich Mende quieted things down. He knew that neither Adenauer's C.D.U. nor the Social Democrats could swallow the idea of a coalition. Inevitably, Adenauer and Mende would...
...Gaulle had hoped that a few years of stability would force the ideologically-based splinter groups into new coalitions, Hoffmann said. "That the parties did not play their part was partly de Gaulle's fault, partly theirs...
...achieved a complete victory in Cuba, the Soviet Union had suffered a stunning setback. Just as significant as Nikita Khrushchev's backdown in the face of firmness was the fact that the Cuba crisis had heartened the Western alliance while helping to splinter the Communist world...
...persons sleep on the streets each night, they would find readymade the strongest Communist organization in India. According to this theory, the Reds could set up a satellite regime in the Bay of Bengal and, without going any farther with their armies, wait for the rest of India to splinter and fall. This strategy has not necessarily been abandoned for good, but it certainly has been set aside. For one thing, the Chinese attack shattered Communism as a political force even in Calcutta...
...Norwegian-Americans) voted 530 to 112 for merger with the big (2,365,000) American Lutheran Church-itself the product of an earlier alliance of three smaller churches. Dr. John Stensvaag, the Free Church's president, says that it can no longer afford the luxury of remaining a splinter group if it is "to go forward worthily in a manner good for the Kingdom." The American Lutheran Church will vote on the Free Church's application for membership at its own convention in October, probably will dispense with a ballot to approve the merger by acclamation...