Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June 1918, leaving a long line of black eyes, broken noses and split lips behind, scrappy Battery D landed at Tilbury Docks on the Thames. Then it was shipped to Le Havre, and ten minutes after it arrived was in a fight with British Tommies. At Coëtquidan, the Battery settled down to learning how to fire French 75s. It had already worn out three captains. It was at Coëtquidan that a fourth came along. His name: Harry S. Truman...
Children cause much of the pulling & hauling between parents of different faiths. Only occasionally do parents split the difference (" 'The oldest [of our children] is Catholic and the youngest Lutheran' "). Sometimes a family turns into a denominational grab bag. Said one girl: "Mother is a member of the United Brethren church ... I have one sister who is Christian Science, one who is Free Methodist, and I am Lutheran.' " When the interviewer asked how this worked out when they were together, she replied: " 'We have to leave off the subject of religion altogether ... I am sure...
...brief speeches the scientists promised not to repeat the "retreat from reason" that was forced upon them during Japan's militarist regime. They pledged themselves to work for world peace. Then they split into committees and got down to their main business of advising the government on Japan's scientific problems. Their charter makes them only an advisory group, but they feel that they have the prestige to give their advice authority. Besides, they have the conviction that they, the scientists of defeated Japan, are pioneering for the entire world...
...Shots . . ." Out of this night he brought, incredibly, a diary. He wrote it, at unthinkable risk, on fine paper captured from the Russians and used in the camp as toilet tissue. He concealed the diary in a succession of common breadboards, split into thin halves, hollowed out inside, and glued together again. He began the diary in the expectation of some day showing it to his wife, but soon "it became a private manner of forgetting...
...corrective, the Justice Department demanded that Western Electric be: 1) divorced from A.T. & T. and split into three independent companies; and 2) required to license its patents to all applicants. There was no demand that A.T. & T. change its operating network...