Word: split
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Onetime (1923-24) Governor Sweet is a radical with a millionaire background, and hence is viewed with alarm by stolid Coloradoans. Mr. Waterman's chief distinction is that he conquered Senator Rice W. Means (backed by the Klan and well-dressed Senator Phipps) in the primaries. Despite the split in the Republican ranks, Colorado is expected to return another G. O. P. Senator...
...submission signed by Trotzky, Zinoviev, Kamenev: "We consider it our duty to openly recognize before the party that in the fight for our views we and our followers on a number of occasions permitted ourselves to take steps which are in violation of party discipline and which tend to split the party...
...These two qualities of the two most able leaders of the present central committee might, quite innocently, lead to a split; if our party does not take measures to prevent it, a split might arise unexpectedly...
...Manhattan, the clang of fire engines split the night air. Fire-companies raced madly through deserted streets, turned corners recklessly, arrived; found one Mrs. Bessie Mann, 35, waiting, patient. Said she, ingenuous, to Magistrate Gordon, "I was on my way home alone. It was dark and I was afraid. So I thought I would ring for a policeman...
...From the bunk above Seaman Ward's issued the stertorous breathing of a 250-lb. shipmate, also slumbering. Waves lapped and buffeted the collier's hull. Timbers creaked. Into the monotonous orchestration of the forecastle's night sounds crept a small cracking note, a rip, a split, a smothered crash. Ward awoke, in intense pain. His brain flashed: "Shipwreck! Drowning:!" Then a terrible weight lifted as the 250-pound shipmate removed his person and his bunk from Ward's head, chest, stomach, legs. Ward was rushed to a shore hospital "seriously injured...