Word: splits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Living Example. Then the man whose campaign slogan had been unity bluntly declared: "The Republican Party is split wide open. It has been split wide open for years, but we have tried to gloss it over." He added: "I am a living example that that doesn't work." What Dewey had in mind seemed to be a purge...
With Careful Exceptions. Before 1945, half of Japan's farms were tenant-operated and owner-dominated. Now the tenant figure is only 13%. The land has been split up: with a few careful exceptions, nobody can own more than six acres or rent out more than three. Land reform halted Communism's appeal to Japanese farmers. As landowners they feel that they are small, separate, independent entrepreneurs. They dislike the mere thought of Russian collectives, which many of them saw as Soviet prisoners...
...Liberals knew that in Nicolet-Yamaska they had made mistakes. They had neglected grass-roots organizing. Their party was badly split in the district; they had run a weak candidate who leaned on the fact that his father once represented the riding. Nevertheless, the election threw an unaccustomed scare into the Liberals. The Tories felt nothing but joy. When Leader George Drew entered Parliament the night of the election, party colleagues gave him a loud cheer and, following time-honored custom, threw copies of Hansard (equivalent to the Congressional Record) across the House...
...even the life of a wealthy, pampered dandy could not go undisturbed. Proust's father, a successful physician, was a Catholic; his mother, whom he adored and whose image dominated his life, was Jewish. When Marcel was 23, the Dreyfus affair split France, and the young man instinctively rushed to the defense of the Jewish captain. In one of the few political acts of his life, Proust circulated petitions for Dreyfus' release. The echoes of the affair rang in his novel years later; after the bigoted behavior of his aristocratic Parisian friends, Proust could never write long about...
Most of the Square's pinball machines are owned by a group of Boston distributors, who split the take 50-50 with the stores in which the machines are placed. The amusement company is responsible for servicing the machines, an important job, as an irate student has been known to wreck one when it failed to pay off with free games. Competition by students for the available machines is occasionally keen; during reading period a group of the buzz-and-flash enthusiasts set up a syndicate to hold down a single game, assigning members to occupy it at designated hours...