Word: begats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning was FDR. People all over the nation got to know those initials. Then came the begats. FDR begat NRA, FERA, CWA, AAA, WPA and PWA. Some begats, like NRA, died without issue, others begat more. OEM (Office for Emergency Management) was the first war bureau. Then NDAC (National Defense Advisory Commission) begat SPAB (Supply, Priorities and Allocations Board), which begat WPB (War Production Board...
Always a model son, Don Juan has been a proper princeling. He dutifully served as a cadet in Britain's Royal Navy, dutifully married a bush-league Bourbon princess, begat two daughters and a son. His only independent act to date was to volunteer for Franco's Army and to be firmly escorted over the border by the General's minions...
Like the Biblical ancients, they had increased and multiplied; old powers begat new powers in marvelous profusion. Through the years of the New Deal he had become a patriarchal emperor, and his empire stretched beyond all fences...
When Jimmu got lost among the coniform hills of Japan, he conjured up a huge three-legged crow to guide him and his warriors (begat by whom, no one knows) to fruitful places. Jimmu made jars out of Mt. Kagu, filled them with rice wine, placed them in the River Nyu, and when the drunken fish wobbled to the surface, he said good times were coming. A kite of brilliant feathers perched on his bow and dazzled his enemies' eyes out. Then one day in 660 B.C. he acceded to the world-throne-i.e., Japan...
From 660 B.C. to 1940 A.D., according to the Japanese credo, the sons of Jimmu Tennō ruled and begat, with the aid of Shoguns, concubines and kinfolks. Down through the years Imperial legends unfolded into a religion and Imperial symbols became as hush-hush as primitive taboos-the divine sword, the jewel, the mirror. The Emperors took the 16-petaled chrysanthemum as a sort of sacred trademark. Modern Japanese are skeptical, sometimes even resentful, of these legends and taboos, but even the best educated observe the outward forms...