Word: splits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time was split between shooting people and making plans of how to shoot more people; everyone around me was sure they were doing the right thing, and they rationalized the bad by saying that it was the price that has to be paid," Sloan said. "The people I was with were not fanatics, they were thoroughly regular people who were isolated form others with a different opinion of the war," he continued...
...take a more dismal view. They feel that CNCV's one-project at a time approach has helped hold the organization together. As McCarthy supporters and more radical community organizers go separate ways within the organization, conflicts of interest and/or allocation of resources might arise. These conflicts might ultimately split CNCV into quarreling factions reminiscent of last summer's National Conference of New Politics...
...Count Me Out." McCarthy's challenge is fairly unusaul in American history. Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moosers seceded from the Republican Party in 1912; in 1948, Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats and Henry Wallace's Progressives both split entirely from the Democrats to run their own minority-party tickets. McCarthy is challenging the incumbent President from within his own party...
...midst of an uproariously funny bank robbery, a country-boy hoodlum fires his pistol; the tone of the scene shifts in a split second from humor to horror as the bloodied victim dies...
Life for a Death. The police pursue them relentlessly and, during one ambush, Buck's skull is split open by bullets. Blanche, wounded in one eye, turns into a shrill animal, incoherently rending the air with screams. Buck thrashes in agony, like a blind bull pierced with sword thrusts. Pain becomes palpable, and the actors became horribly real as the screen turns as bloody as a slaughterhouse floor...