Word: splinterized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good enough to win a Pulitzer Prize for general excellence. The Herald's biggest circulation asset is Sportwriter Bill Cunningham, whose orotund mastery of the cliche is often a frontpage delight to readers. Wrote Cunningham from the Florida training camps last week: "Theodore Samuel Williams, the quondam splendid splinter, caught one squarely upon the schnozzola and propelled it in a spectacular parabola all the way into the unchartered [sic'] reaches beyond the right center field fence...
Beer added that without a decent majority it will be difficult for Prime Minister Attlee to prevent inflation. "Splinter groups will give him trouble," he said...
There was still one final worry: would the proportional system encourage splinter parties? Majority Leader Scott Lucas suggested a change which would require the winner to poll at least 40% of the electoral vote. If no candidate gets 40% of the vote, the winner would be picked from the two highest by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress. With that change, the Lodge amendment sailed through...
...worth the trouble, he reflected. It was not every day that a Mexican could see so holy a relic with his own eyes. It was not every day that a Belgian monk, trying to promote peace in the Holy Land, arrived on a world tour with a splinter from Jesucristo's own cross. Dios, what excitement! Red Cross ambulances screamed up & down, carting off women & children trampled in the crush...
...long last, the squat man was inside the elaborate baroque doors of the San Francisco church. Over the rebozo-covered heads of the women ahead of him, he could actually see the ten-foot cross with its glass box containing the holy splinter mounted at its center. His pulse beat faster. Finally, as he came abreast of the cross, his pocket knife flashed. Shrilly, the woman behind him screamed. "Virgen santisima! A sacrilege! This man has cut a piece of the Holy Cross...