Word: splinterized
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...story of the turtles' birth certainly strays from the superhero script. They started out as aquarium pets, but mutated after falling into a pool of radioactive glop in a New York sewer. They were raised by a rat, Splinter, who taught them Ninja skills to fight crime...
Eastman speculated kids are attracted to the turtles because of "the family attitude with the four brothers and Splinter playing the father figure and the teacher...
...fears were not only military. Diplomatic experts warned that a provocation of Saddam could only lead to attacks on Israel, which undoubtedly would spark reprisals and perhaps an Arab-Israeli war. This would splinter Bush's fragile coalition (if only for reasons of domestic dissent within Arab members of the coalition) and spur Arab support for Saddam Hussein...
...Soviet Union, the essential partner in such a future order, still seems to favor the feral approach. Knowing the world was looking somewhere else, its army stamped a bloody boot on separatist Lithuania -- a no-nonsense warning that the union of Soviet republics will not be allowed to splinter. President Mikhail Gorbachev's verbal shrug at the violence looked like a casual reactivation of the Brezhnev Doctrine -- in his own country...
Today, even where critics of the peace movement see opportunistic splinter groups, defenders see the beginnings of an inclusive coalition. The fact is that Greenpeace, the Marxist Leninist party, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power and the Spartacist Youth League all made appearances at the Common...