Word: splinteredness
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For the workers who gave the computer its name, who call it simply "the machine," its advent is not as impressive as it is for management. Leyla Reddy, a clerk, says "at first it was fun because it was something different," and Conceicao A. Peixoto, who works in the payroll...
During her solo, Monk's voice moves from full-throated chanting to feathered warbling to splintered wailing. Her last cry evokes the image of an old Eskimo, or ancient squaw, or fairy-tale granny calling the spirits to accompany her passage from her death-bed.
JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS were separated for long periods during the 22-year period the book spans. During their courtship and the early years of their marriage, Adams was often away practicing law in different towns. Then, the First and Second Continental Congresses drew the Braintree lawyer to Pennsylvania until...
Militating against Sullivan's prediction, on the other hand, is a split in the ranks of the Independents, old-style Democrats who draw their strength from working-class and ethnic sections of the city. Last time the five Independent councilors--Sullivan, Daniel J. Clinton, Thomas W. Danehy, Alfred E. Vellucci...
That may be just as true on the domestic front, for Ford presides over a nation that returned overwhelming Democratic majorities in the last election. Indeed, he looked last fall as if he would be a caretaker President at the mercy of Capitol Hill. That did not prove to be...