61.   Plainly something divided the country this past year, something powerful enough to set off a political crisis.

62.   Powerful factions in all three parties favor dividing the country into three quasi- or fully independent republics, each dominated by a single group.

63.   Politically, the country is still divided largely along racial lines, although the only new party, the United Democratic Movement, is multiracial.

64.   Religious strife in Switzerland has been over for more than a century, and the country is divided almost evenly between Catholics and Protestants.

65.   Slavery was an issue that divided the country.

66.   Starting mid-morning, Lebanese army officers opened the tightly controlled checkpoints and packed cars began rolling past the gates that have divided the country.

67.   The bombing awakened many Americans to the depths of the bigotry and hatred that divided the country.

68.   The Albanians who have lately taken up arms, many of them young men emboldened by the Kosovo war, threaten to divide the country along ethnic lines.

69.   The auction divided the country into three territories.

70.   The country may be divided, but everyone tunes in.