Word: splinterable
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...tendency to see the highest virtue in self-sacrifice and violence was also a feature of Japan's left wing. A Japanese United Red Army man raked a crowd of passengers with machine-gun fire at Lod International Airport in Israel in 1972. Revolutionary splinter groups tortured and bashed to death several of their own members. This kind of violence is usually a sign of hopelessness, of desperation, when messianic dreams reach a dead...
...think I'm in love with him, but I understand him very well," she says. And she doesn't advise any of her readers to fall in love with him either, cautioning "he has a splinter of ice inside...
...this week, yet another conservative splinter group graces our campus, unofficially. The Harvard-Radcliffe Republican Alliance, whose allegedly moderate members lost elections in the now gender-biased Harvard Republican Club, has made the foray into the wilds of political independence...
...Jewish businesswoman, joined the radical Jewish Defense League. He was convicted in the 1977 bombing of a Soviet bookstore in Manhattan. Soon after, Fitzpatrick turned government informer. According to court documents he was paid about $10,000 by the FBI to inform on two members of a j.d.l. splinter group who were eventually convicted of the 1978 attempt to bomb an Egyptian tourist office in New York City...
...Nation of Islam (NOI) while in prison and become the foremost spokesman of its fiercely proud and racist party line, played out his final political incarnation. After revealing that his mentor, Elijah Muhammad, had fathered several illegitimate children, Malcolm had split with the Nation. He had founded a splinter group, traveled to Mecca, adopted a more tolerant political philosophy (along with the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) and begun to believe he was marked for death -- correctly so. One conspirator distracted his bodyguards' attention; another pulled a shotgun trigger, creating, in the words of writer Marshall Frady, "a perfectly...