Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like Christmas at Splinter Stadium yesterday. The weather would have chilled a polar bear, and Harvard's baseball team played Santa Claus with a bag of gifts that included five errors. When the festivities were over, Boston College found itself in possession of a 9-6 victory...
...Sargent, a converted third baseman who has suddenly deveoped into a top-notch pitcher, hurled the Crimson baseball team to an 8-3 win over Boston University yesterday at Splinter Stadium...
...course the imperialists are still the enemy, but Peking, with its "despotism," "frantic slanders" and "chauvinism," is only giving them aid and comfort. The Chinese leaders, said Khrushchev, are producing a growing cluster of Communist splinter parties-which threaten to weaken the international Communist movement. "The imperialists must now be rubbing their hands with satisfaction. Can the great revolutionary cause be betrayed in a more vile...
...went with Sam, who was re-elected to the bench in 1954 after a brief fling as a splinter party mayoralty candidate. And so it might have gone with his request to stay on; over the years the Administrative Board of the Judicial Conference has demonstrated a remarkable reluctance to say no. But then, in a strongly worded letter to the conference, the judiciary committee of the New York City Bar Association recalled Sam's "demonstrated lack of judicial temperament, his habitual arrogance and discourtesy to lawyers and litigants, and his frequent embroilment in distasteful and grossly unjudicial incidents...
Died. The Most Rev. Daniel Mannix, 99, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne, a fighting prelate whose concern with Australian temporal matters led him into crusades against conscription in World War I, later into a battle with Australian Labor Party Communists, during which he supported a splinter labor party and deflected enough votes in the 1955 election to give the Robert Gordon Menzies Liberals command of Australian politics; of cerebral anemia; in Melbourne...