Word: splits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most likely the rebels entered Malawi through Zambia, as President Banda charged. At first the invasion was said to number forty, then the figure was reduced to twenty-six. Led by Chisiza they reached the forests of Neno, forty miles Northwest of Blantyre city, and there they split up into two groups. One group made for Blantyre with its alleged assassina...
...details are not all that new; the conclusions are Thompson states that "there were four shots from three guns in six seconds." What led him to this belief was a close examination of the film of the assassination. As he saw it, a split second after President Kennedy's head lurched forward under the impact of a bullet, it lurched back again. Thompson speculates that another bullet must have struck him from the front. Much of the debris from the wound, moreover, landed to the rear of the car, again an indication to Thompson of an oncoming bullet. After...
Scene of the struggle was Delano (pronounced Delrryno), a grape-growing city of some 13,000 inhabitants, split by Highway 99 into a west side filled with lo-ball parlors, taco joints and strikers and an east side dominated by "Anglo" growers and indignation. As Author Dunne points out in this admirably dispassionate account of the yearlong strike, both camps were on the wrong side of history...
...Bear wasn't ready to roll over yet. On the first play from scrimmage, quarterback Hal Phillips pitched to former quarterback Mike Maznicki who stole Hornblower's thunder by flipping a 32 yard wobbler to split end Greg Kontos...
...office arguments or debate from some distant sidelines. Their lives are tied by flesh and blood to Viet Nam. Talk does not come cheap for them." Calling for unity, he predicted that "peace will come more quickly when the enemy of freedom finds no crack in our courage-no split in our resolve -and no encouragement to prolong his war in the shortness of our patience or the sharpness of our tongues...