Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Split 20 to 20 between Democrats and Republicans, the Massachusetts Senate was deadlocked for 22 days and 114 ballots over the election of a presiding officer, finally compromised by electing a Democrat for 1949, a Republican...
...British ships blocked the path of the Haim Arlosoroff as it came into sight of the Promised Land. When British troops came on board, Abraham split off a three-foot length of lifeboat oar and fought back with the others. The British subdued the immigrants with tear gas and water from firehoses, deported them to Cyprus...
Worst of all, Barrister Manley, with whom Busta had split a decade ago, was seriously threatening both his unions and the Labor Party. Bustamante's unions had sagged from 75,000 to 45,000 members. Manley's anti-Communist People's National Party was openly boasting that it would sweep Busta out of office in next year's elections, and Manley himself seemed to rate high with the British Labor government's Colonial Office...
...heard that some teacher's wife had suddenly been taken ill, he would still rush headlong out of a conference to see that she got proper care; once, when he attended a Halloween party in his old Marine uniform, he danced so hard that the pants split down the middle. The Christianity he taught was never stern. "He could have been any kind of clergyman," said one alumnus. "He was a priest for the Catholics, a rabbi for the Jews...
There was another reason for the stock rise. For the first time in its history, U.S. Steel decided to split its stock-3 shares for 1-if the stockholders approve next May. By thus lowering the price of its stock, Big Steel hoped to widen the ownership, and win more friends who might influence Congress if there is any more talk of putting the Government into the steel business. Next day, in a 55,100-share turnover-greatest since Nov. 7, 1940-U.S. Steel closed at 77½, up 4⅝ points, though the rest of the market sagged...