Word: splinterable
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Certainly neither SANE nor any of the disarmament splinter groups has a clear idea of what they should do, although most think they know what should be done. What new techniques for activism can be used to meet this new situation? What are the implications of the necessarily unsubtle techniques now used? One can feel great sympathy, for example, with the pacifist who pickets missle bases until he realizes that this sort of action bears no direct relation to the situation (a technician here is by no means a scab if he crosses the picket line) and that the symbolism...
...fidgeted with his cap, the president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce presented an inscribed Paul Revere bowl to him, and Gowdy, Red Sox announcer, called the Splinter the greatest hitter in baseball--"simply a champion...
...clear the way for the TV battles, Congress last week passed, and the President signed, a bill revising "equal-time" regulations so as to bar any splinter-party candidate from claiming equal network time with Kennedy and Nixon...
...Belgium's memory has our prestige been so low." Similar outcries came from the right-wing Liberal Party, whose 21 helping votes have kept Eyskens' Social Christians in office and the Socialist Party out. Hovering ominously in the background was a growing cluster of quasi-Fascist splinter groups whose members booed Parliament itself, marched noisily through the street with placards demanding "All power to the King...
...last 350 ft. were brutal. Clawing up a narrow chimney, Kamps was blocked by a huge chock stone, an 80-ft. splinter of granite that had fallen from above and plugged the passageway. With infinite care, he inched his way to the left. After an hour's work, he drove a piton into the rock, hooked a finger through the piton's eye and leaned dizzily backwards to search for a route above. Down below, the spectators stopped talking. Somehow the climbers found a way up the face, around the chock stone, and back into the chimney again...