Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inches away from each other and battled it out with plenty of raised voices. In the United States, four main parties appeared on the ballot; only two, to no one's surprise, had enough votes to gain seats in the House. In Canada, six parties gained seats and three split the bulk of the votes...
...looks to be it. Last week the 4,800-seat Northrop was nearly sold out. The kids in the balcony squealed as if at a rock concert, not only for Prince megahits like Purple Rain but for the Joffrey's male corps when they circled the stage in spectacular split leaps...
...signature image of classical dance: the hypnotizing line of ghostly maidens in La Bayadere, who crisscross the stage executing a simple pattern of stretches and bends. Later, Dean makes the same movements explode, with the women kicking high and the men cavorting, airborne, in cascades of split jumps...
...first meeting I sat in [as a sophomore]," he smiles, "we had nine quarterbacks who sat down in Coach Restic's office. He started drawing plays on the board, and I just said, I'm moving to split end. I mean, I just had no idea...
...images. If Americans had seen the battles of the Wilderness and Cold Harbor on TV screens in 1864, if they had witnessed the meat-grinding carnage of Ulysses Grant's warmaking, then public opinion would have demanded an end to the Civil War, and the Union might well have split into two countries, one of them farmed by black slaves...