Word: splintering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...federal system. The Lodge plan is resisted by Kennedy Democrats, including John F. himself, who fought hard against a version of it in the Senate in 1956. One flaw is that in a close election, such as Lincoln's in 1860 or Kennedy's in 1960, splinter parties could prevent any candidate from getting a majority of the electoral votes, and the election would be thrown into the House of Representatives. To prevent that, Lodge urged inclusion of a clause making 40% of the total electoral votes sufficient to elect a President...
...Parliament, the Socialists joined with the eight-man delegation of the splinter right-wing Liberal Party and forced a resolution demanding that the government prepare a bill that could return ultimate judgment on all Habsburg Law cases to Parliament. The Liberals lent their support to the Socialists, however, only on the condition that the bill not be retroactive and that Otto would not be barred from returning home...
Catcher Dick Diehl had an equally admirable afternoon, delighting reunioners with three hits that drove in four runs. One of Diehl's feats, a prodigious drive beyond the grasp of the respectfully distant outfielders, would surely have been a homerun in any field with a fence. At Splinter Stadium, though, with its uncontained outfield pasture, the outfielders had time to rescue the ball before the massive catcher could make the turn at third, thus holding him to a triple...
Herald columnist George Frazier wrote yesterday morning that "Harvard's baseball coach is strictly bush," but in Splinter Stadium in the afternoon it was the varsity that was strictly bush. Harvard lost 2-1 to Holy Cross (in the top of the ninth, naturally) on a mighty home-run blast through the legs of short-top Tom Bilodeau...
...Pearson, it was a week of exhilara tion and new beginnings. A baby was named for him in Newfoundland-and so were two penguin chicks hatched in Vancouver's zoo. Technically, he was still four seats shy of an absolute parliamentary majority. But the two splinter parties, with 41 seats between them, had both promised support on most issues. A frantic argument shook the funny-money Social Credit Party over six Quebec M.P.s who bolted party lines, independently promised their votes to Pearson. "I will not tolerate any deals," said Social Credit Leader Robert Thompson, hinting darkly that...