Word: splinteringly
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...Mississippi and in teeming boroughs on the East cost, patriotic youths have erected grand and alabaster bannisters in tribute to the state. And in upstate New York, I am told, they are razing America's traditional sports temple to make way for a Hall of Fame for the great splinter-pickers...
...legions of tourists the library will attract will have on Cambridge may upset the careful balance of forces. Their voices may not be enough to stop the project, but they may force the University to take a public stand on the Kennedy Library. Continued University silence will permit the splinter group of professors to substitute its views for University policy...
Last Hurrah. The surprising strength of Trudeau's Liberal Party gave his government a comfortable 141 seats of 264 in the House of Commons. Trudeau's majority can now govern without relying on the support of one of Canada's splinter parties. The Conservatives lost twelve seats, ending up with 95, and the tiny, right-wing Social Credit Party dropped from 15 to eleven...
...Nixon administration. After a preliminary rally of about 200 people in the Yard, over 400 demonstrators--most of them students--chanted slogans outside the club while Ford addressed the Harvard Republicans within. Most of the demonstrators never saw Ford, who entered and left by a back door, but a splinter group of about 100 who had broken around to the back of the club chanted "Impeach Nixon, dump Ford," when the vice president's car flashed by. He waved. The remaining pickets blocked traffic in front of the club...
...masses. The SLA's topsy-turvy tactics were condemned by Ramparts and a host of activists including Cesar Chavez, Huey Newton, Angela Davis, Jerry Rubin, and Jane Fonda. Even the Weather Underground expressed its sympathy for the SLA cautiously; only the Black Liberation Army, a Black Panther splinter group, supported the SLA with enthusiasm...