Word: branch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night last week a patrol of rifle brigade troopers, accompanied by special branch officers and tracker dogs, saw shadowy figures rise and run for the edge of a rubber patch near the central Malayan town of Semenyih. They fired. One fell. Next day in Semenyih a handful of Communists who had given up identified the body of Yang Kuo. Said one, gazing down at their old master in murder: "We surrendered, and we still walk and see. Here lies former Comrade Yang Kuo, white-faced, pale and dead." British leaders were jubilant. Yang Kuo was the No. 2 Malayan Communist...
...soak up some of the free-floating wealth from well-heeled miners, drillers and claim-speculators, a Toronto stock-brokerage firm set up a branch office in Chibougamau, now handles $500,000 worth of business a week. The town's four hotels (a fifth is building) seldom bother to take down their "no vacancy" signs, and their barrooms are perpetually jammed around the clock with unshaven miners and prospectors just in from the bush, and ready to swing a rock-hard fist at the drop of an insult...
...Randy Mills first visited the area in the 1930s, never quite forgot it during subsequent years of promoting Labrador's famed iron mines and the titanium mines at Havre St. Pierre, Que. As he sees it, the boom has just begun. Arrival of the Canadian National Railways' branch line by year's end seems certain to give the bonanza a new lift. And out in the bush to the north of Chibougamau, a crew of college engineering students hand-picked by Mills are busily prospecting for new strikes. Said Mills last week: "I've waited...
...FINE Long Branch...
...short stories, it is a sure sign of gusto to follow. Ten pages after the loss has been reported, the bereaved youth is floating disconsolately downstream in a punt, while the evangelist who has come to restore his faith is clinging hopelessly to the branch of a willow tree and slowly sinking, like "a declining dogma," into the cold river water. The moral of this brisk little story is: Be sure your feet are on firm ground before you extend a helping hand...