Word: splinteringly
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...rather than face another eviction, and spent the next day in meetings, too small now to even attempt a blockade. Statement about retaking the antinuclear movement from CDAS and suggestions to put out a press release stressing the success of our true nonviolence could only further split the tiny splinter of the movement that had come to Seabrook. Handbooks might state that we would stay and make repreated attempts until we occupied, but we knew that we were leaving after the weekend. Even if we had taken over, we would have turned it right back in three days. And construction...
...have been falling in love with a succession of heavy-duty Hell's Angels and being the kind of woman who will help anyone, any time, no matter what he has done. "The night of the arrest," she says, "I was vacuuming and trying to get a splinter out of my toe. I thought it was a bad joke, people out side shouting, 'Open up! Federal agents.' This big crowd rushed in. They took my wedding pictures and they thought the rice was dope. They threatened I would never see my daughter again unless I turned state...
...looks as if Washington is in for another McCarthy era. "I'm taking the kids' back to the Smithsonian later this month," says Frances Bergen, referring to her late husband Edgar Bergen's famous splinter group, Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Snerd and Effie Klinker. The treesome threesome will star at the Smithsonian's puppet exhibit opening in June. Dimwitted Snerd and spry old Klinker will return to California once the show ends on Labor Day, but in keeping with the late ventriloquist's wishes, Charlie McCarthy will remain at the Smithsonian to become part...
...their breach in order to form an effective opposition to Gandhi's Congress Party. An ominous prospect, however, is an alliance between the Communist parties that won a total of 37 seats in West Bengal. Though the parties have ideological differences, they may join with leftist parties and splinter groups in other states to qualify as India's only official opposition bloc in Parliament...
...excitement and crashes that sounded like thunder. And from the top-most bench, surrounded by many brutal and ugly Hanover maidens, sat Lady Grizzelda, crying for St. John. And one by one on the field, the knights fell from their horses. The rushes were so great that lances would splinter when they crashed with a shield. And blood streamed from everywhere, as the knights swung their swords with such violence that they cut through the armor clear to the skin...