Word: branch
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Guest Room for Guy. Son of St. John Philby, the famed desert explorer and Arab scholar, "Kim" Philby carried on an undergraduate flirtation with Communism at Cambridge, where he first knew Burgess. After covering the Spanish Civil War for the London Times, he joined M.I.6-Britain's overseas intelligence branch-during World War II, won the Order of the British Empire for his espionage work. After the war, he transferred to the Foreign Service, in 1949 was posted to the British embassy in Washington as first secretary and chief of security. Though crowded in a house with his second wife...
...Yugoslav Parliament was preparing to pass a new tax law that "will not discourage the development of crafts." The party's official mouthpiece, Belgrade's Daily Borba, offered a distinctly non-Marxian rationale for the retreat: "The law treats private craftsmen as an additional but significant economic branch which fits well in the system of socialist economy...
...badgered Slaton to teach him and his fellow Cub Scouts how to get the most out of their new chemistry sets. Slaton was soon teaching chemistry to 20 Cubs in his home, got a bacteriologist to teach the use of microscopes. Response was so eager that Slaton had to branch into electronics...
Finally, there are several factual errors in your article. There is no such body as the "Federal Housing and Homes Agency." You are referring to the Housing and Home Finance Agency, one of whose branches, the Urban Renewal Administration, handles the federal grants for urban renewals projects. The authorization for federal urban renewal grants comes from the 1949 Housing Act as amended, most significantly in 1954 and 1961. The mortgages you mention in your final paragraph are insured by the Federal Housing Administration, which is theoretically another branch of the Housing and Home Finance Agency but tends to be quite...
...with those who said that Baldwin's rejection of the United States's whole style of life amounted to a call for a complete change in the social and economic order. Weaver concluded that the rights movement is actually a "Negro revolution" which is "attacking American society root and branch...