Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian, Finnish envoys avoided each other with frigid finesse. Near-incidents: 1) Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumansky almost bumped into Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope, but just in time handsome Mr. Procope turned aside toward the chocolate cookies. 2) Rumors spread that the fancy pants of Mehmet Munir Ertegun, Turkish Ambassador, split slightly as he bowed before the President. No one could confirm this rumor, as the Ambassador stood poker-faced with his back to the wall most of the evening...
...Germans got 1.5%, the British 2.6%. Here the average may well have been 2% in the first phases. Spee suffered two especially bad hits-which must have been 256-pound shells from Exeter, since they both pierced heavy armament. One of them, high on the port quarter detonating a split second after getting inside, ripped gaping holes in side and deck. The other probably decided the battle. It pocked Spee's control tower fair and square. Lights went out. Telephones went dead. The central fire control went out of whack. Some of Spee's best plotters, gunnery officers...
...Fridays Joe takes his wife to the movies with some friends "from up the road." They gather in Joe's house before the show "so that the men can split a tin of canned beer together." Once a year Joe meets "the alumni of his school fraternity," and on rare occasions he takes Gertrude "uptown" to the theatre. "They spring a dinner at one of the smart Manhattan joints, jostle in the crowds, and rubberneck the lights of the Great White...
...further indication of the internal split in the organization, four of the elected members of the Executive Board for next year are Communist sympathizers, while the other three are non-Marxists...
Charley Lutz, Crimson captain, will be the chief offensive threat of the invaders. The speedy forward leads the team in scoring with 24 points, split evenly between the Tech and Northeastern encounters. Bill Webber is paired with...