Word: splinteringly
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...lost by-elections to an overall minority of nine. Still, with his party holding a 32-vote edge over the Tories, Callaghan's only fear was the kind of catalytic issue that would unite the Conservatives with the congeries of Scottish and Welsh Nationalists, Liberals, Ulster Unionists and splinter M.P.s who hold the balance of power...
General Strategy. Some form new splinter groups, others in their disillusion are drifting toward the Socialists, still others try to reverse the "democratic" trend within the party apparat. The Communists are still a great potential danger in Western Europe, particularly since the bourgeois parties have no general strategy on how to cope with them. Their role in Western Europe depends on the viability of the Western alliance, led by the Carter Administration. European leaders are confident that if "we" -the alliance-can lick our economic problems and the social tensions that come with them, then the Communist problem will solve...
...Musicum, which he established in 1971. In the late 60's the Radcliffe Choral Society dissolved, leaving women without a chorus in which to sing, since the extant Glee Club has traditionally been all-male. This lack provoked a number of women to recruit some men--and form a splinter choral group which ultimately would serve two crucial functions: it would operate as a vehicle for women to exercise their vocal cords and as a medium by which some of the world's finest choral music--works for mixed choruses--could be performed at Harvard...
...then there are those who choose an alternate course--with the thought of two months, if not three years of splinter-gathering looming large, they quit the team altogether...
...with the thought of two months, if not three, of splinter-gathering looming large, they quit the team altogether...