Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, amid singing and dancing in the street, Jimmy will inaugurate a new, $45,000 branch of his laundry, but this is hardly the whole measure of the change he has brought to Haiti. Dry-cleaning has cleared the way for two big mass-production tailoring shops in Port-au-Prince. Five haberdasheries have opened, and five more dry-cleaners have followed Jimmy into business. Women's ready-to-wear shops have mushroomed. Haiti's women now dress in rayon, taffeta and wool...
...Jordan, the next stop, greeted Dulles with an olive branch, which someone thrust into his hand, and an unscheduled, indignant lecture. Said Aaref el Aaref, Arab historian and former mayor of Jerusalem's Old City: "Our . . . friendship has been imperiled by the Truman Administration, which not only created Israel but has been keeping it as a thorn in our side." Replied Dulles: "At home we Americans heatedly debate many issues, but we are not in the habit of criticizing one another outside the country. I therefore cannot agree with your criticism of a former American Administration." At a candlelight...
...citizen of two worlds," says Catholic Philosopher Heinrich Rommen, "the City of God and the City of Man. He is destined for the former, but he must live and work for his salvation in the latter." From a deep and common tap root, the Christian Democrats of Europe branch out in a variety of directions...
...nearly 4,000 officers. The Air Force has 70,000 enlisted men (7%) and nearly 1,000 officers. The Navy, lagging behind the others in giving equality to the Negro, has 34,000 enlisted men (a little less than 3%, half of them still in the mess steward's branch) and 65 officers...
...still nights," said Genevive MacMillan, the blonde propriatrice of Club Henri IV, "I can hear my bells from Harvard Square." The four bells, bought at Filene's and tied to a cherry branch which overshadows Genevieve's terrace, tinkled restlessly in the wind. Like most of the decorations of Club Henry IV, Genevieve's own creating, the bells lent an air very simply, with little effort. Genevieve's restaurant occupies the two lower floors of an ancient frame building on Winthrop Street...