Word: splits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...both Negro and reform-minded, who deplored gambling, prostitution and crooked politics. Hatcher's presence jarred the Democrats so badly that in their primary last May, Mayor Martin Katz was challenged not only by the Negro but by a white segregationist as well. With the white vote split, City Council President Hatcher was able to win the nomination...
...organization was unappeased, and its calumny persuaded lifelong Democrats to vote for the white Republican candidate, John Radigan, a furniture dealer. The Democrats issued voters careful instructions on how to split their tickets...
...there be an immediate cease-fire and withdrawal of U.S. troops from Viet Nam so that the Vietnamese people can settle their own problems?" The proposition was defeated by a vote of 136,516 (63%) to 78,806 (37%)-and a new Gallup poll shows that, nationwide, Americans are split on the issue by roughly the same ratio. Still, the fact that more than a third of the voters supported a more or less instant-withdrawal position suggests that a more carefully phrased or more moderate de-escalating proposition might have carried...
...largely because it incorporated repeal of a prohibition on state aid to church-run private schools. The Roman Catholic hierarchy vigorously backed the constitution, whose advocates spent more than $500,000 on hard-sell advertising that succeeded only in opening half-healed religious wounds. Governor Rockefeller, who split with other Republican leaders to give tepid endorsement to the charter, actually came out with a net gain. Presidentially speaking, his stand will probably help his image among Catholic voters...
...moment when her body seemed to break apart as she crossed the stage. You saw how completely the woman and her tiny hopes were crushed. Whenever she spoke, she started out eagerly, then collapsed from fear of being reprimanded. Still, she perched on her chair awaiting the split second in a conversation that would be hers to fill...