Word: splintered
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...Montagnards alone. Few Vietnamese display much interest in or knowledge of the roughly 1,000,000 tribesmen living in the remote, heavily jungled high plateaus. The Montagnards take a lot of knowing, for they comprise an extraordinarily complex ethnolmguistic mixture numbering at least 20 tribes and many more splinter groupings. They have for centuries resisted the cultural influences of the Sinic and Hindu peoples that have flooded into the IndoChinese peninsula. Saigon leaders, from President Ngo Dinh Diem through General Nguyen Khanh and Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, had gone through similar ceremonies previously in attempts to rally...
...part of Harvard baseball left more than a year ago when they removed splinter stadium and the team fought to a berth in the NCAA finals. This year Harvard has lost considerably more than those bleachers, forcing any fan to hope that Harvard baseball thrives on adversity...
...Gruppen, three orchestral groups totaling 109 players curve around three sides of the audience; in Carre, four groups of 20 players each, plus eight to twelve singers, face outward from a central circle. Both compositions fill the air with hard-edged blocks of dissonance that collide, clash and splinter with a force that is almost visual. The ultimate result is not unlike life in a crowded tenement building, with many windows open and a blaring radio in each apartment...
...ultraradical splinter group from the Zengakuren students' union was not about to settle for any peaceful solution. Like militants on other campuses the world over, they wanted a violent confrontation with authority...
...Splendid Splinter? The Big Train? The Big Six? Pistol Pete? The Wild Horse of the Osage? The Yankee Clipper...