Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berlin and prevent unification of Germany at all costs. What the Soviets fear most is a strong, united Germany and the possibility of a very strong China. Ike has seen nothing to indicate that the Russians really do want a summit conference, but they are using the summit to split the Western powers. Still, he is willing to go to the summit, provided that the foreign ministers' meeting shows some progress; he would not go if he thought that his presence could be construed as abject surrender...
...Massachusetts. McCormack (67) is ambitious to succeed Mr. Sam (77) as House Speaker, is wary of rising competition from Missouri's youthful (43) Richard Boiling, who has been Mr. Sam's quarterback on labor-bill strategy. McCormack covertly began to work for Meany. Good Democrats should never split on labor issues, he soothingly told the Rayburn loyalists on the committee, and "Don't follow the Speaker down this road to ruin." As some of the Rayburn Democrats swayed, McCormack threw open support to a skeleton substitute bill drawn up by California's Teamster-tempted Jimmy Roosevelt...
Finletter briefly described the background of the present American position and then speculated as to the "uncertainties of the next decade for which our foreign policy must prepare." He emphasized the crucial importance of winning Afro-Asian respect, promoting a split between Russia and China, preventing Russo-Chinese military superiority, strengthening NATO by giving it additional political and military functions, achieving peace in the Near East, and controlling the weapons of the future...
...theological split has long kept Shiite Iraq, Iran and Yemen apart from the rest of the Moslem world, which generally adheres to Sunnite doctrine. Last week Sheik Mahmoud Chaltout, 66, Nasser-appointed rector of Cairo's revered al-Azhar University (TIME, May 11), was dramatically pressing a drive to reconcile the two sects. Sheik Chaltout years ago began wooing ulamas (Koranic scholars) of both sides with learned societies and a liberal theological monthly that is still going strong. Striking now with Nasser's support at the very root of the schism-the university itself, which for centuries condemned...
...writes a lonelyhearts column called "The Lamplighter." His chief anxiety is still his sophomoric brother-in-law Nickie Sherman, a fool in bon motley. In Comfort, Nickie salvaged his ego by catching a crook; in Tents, Nickie becomes a crook, at odd hours, and ends up chasing his own split personality. In Comfort, the happily married Chick found himself unaccountably in bed with an art-loving Mrs. Thicknesse; in Tents, the still happily married Chick all but fathers a child by an art-loving bohemianette named Sweetie Appleyard. Everyone gets back on an even keel just in time to sail...