Word: splinters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...independent electorate-a full quarter of her voters. Many of them are small businessmen who did not like the last Popular Front administration. If enough of them should swing to Ibáñez, neither candidate may get a clear majority since there are one or two splinter party candidates in the field. If this happened, Chile's Congress would have to pick a President...
...wounded men had the same burning wish. Said one sailor: "Before this we didn't want to fight anybody. But now all we want is to get well enough to get our crack at those bastards." He did not yet know that a wound from a bomb splinter on his spine would never let him fight or walk again...
...troubles of her own, Bolivia has been a favorite field for Nazi intrigue. Since most of her food is imported, there is a chronic food shortage, a steadily rising cost of living. And, partly as a legacy from her dictator regimes, her political scene is a labyrinth of splinter parties...
...Dansk National-Socialistisk-Arbejderpartei (Danish Nazi party) under ridiculous Doctor Fritz Clausen has only 30,000 members, but there are nine other Danish-Nazi splinter groups. The Germans encourage this splintering to forward the disintegration of the country's political system. They hope to absorb Denmark whole...
General Lukacz was killed when a shell struck the automobile in which he and Commissar Regler were riding. Says Novelist Ernest Hemingway in his flattering preface: it might have been better for Regler if he had been killed too. He survived, but a steel splinter so nearly bisected him that the doctor who dressed the wound was able to push his hand completely through Regler's body. Author Regler escaped from France just before the Nazi invasion, is now in Mexico...