Word: splinteringly
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...country's steep excise and import taxes on autos, color television sets, washing machines and other consumer products. While polls in January predicted an absolute Labor majority in the 120-seat Knesset, they now show Labor with only 45 seats, Begin's Likud with 33 and various splinter groups with 42. The new polls undoubtedly give Begin more confidence as he faces such unexpected bombshells as the tart revelations of his onetime Defense Minister, Ezer Weizman. Excerpts from a Weizman memoir, read avidly in Israel last week, are sharply critical of Begin and his leadership following the Camp...
Despite the promises, all of the moderate left civilians in the new government resigned four months later, charging the military half of the coalition with continuing repression. This splinter group formed an alliance with the Marxist guerrilla groups organized in the countryside...
...renown coming from his association with Harvard athletes, Fadden probably is best known for the years he spent with the Red Sox, Ted Williams especially. The often-surly Splendid Splinter always held a special fondness for Fadden either because of the trainer's amazing ability to rehabilitate Williams' many injuries or because of Fadden's sometimes-brutal honesty...
...campaigning early Monday. At a backyard gathering in suburban Chicago, he lost no time in lambasting Reagan, saying that being "jingoistic in spirit" was "an excellent way to lead this country to war." It was that evening that he hit full voice and charged that Reagan would splinter the nation...
Reagan's unaccustomed role as a healer of political divisions was much in evidence at the convention. After a dozen years of ardently wooing the party, he had the nomination in his grasp, and he was not about to let the party splinter as it did in 1964. During the primary campaign, Reagan complained to reporters that they were incorrectly perpetuating "the notion that [in his films] I never got the girl in the end. In fact, I was usually the steady, sincere suitor?the one the girl finally turned...