Word: branches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modern House of Saud comprises the descendants of Abdul Aziz and his five brothers. Supreme power is held by the "Inner Six," a council made up of the heads of the family's six principal branches. Oddly enough, neither King Khalid nor Crown Prince Fahd is a member of the Inner Six; their branch of the family, that of Abdul Aziz, is represented by an older brother, Mohammed, who long ago renounced his claim to the throne...
...hour-long majlis took place in an audience chamber big enough to accommodate a basketball court. The maroon carpet was wall-to-wall, and armchairs in green or gold upholstery bordered the room. The green walls were decorated with a palm branch motif. From the center of the ceiling hung a large crystal chandelier, and from each corner, a smaller chandelier...
...Armstrong-Jones, in 1964. But by 1967 the marriage began to show visible strains. Rumors abounded of Snowdon's dalliance with fashion models. Increasingly, Margaret appeared imperiously scornful of him in front of friends, throwing down too many gins and tonic, while he tooled around with a trendy branch of the Mayfair smart...
While he does branch out in new directions--different research methods and a broader focus--Levinson is also clearly following in the wake of the psychoanalytic school of thought. Drawing on the work and concepts of Freud, Jung, Erikson and William James, among others, he attempts to generalize their ideas to include other times of life besides childhood and other crises and reorientations besides the Oedipal dilemma. Fortunately, Levinson also is more favorable to sociological sorts of questions and researches than are his more theoretical psychoanalytic counterparts, and therefore he tends to live less in a world of mental models...
They have returned to the offices of SAGA, a currently little-known branch of the Pentagon that is reported to be gaining steadily in influence with the top military brass. The civilians return two or three times a year--SAGA's top-secret guest list reportedly includes influential university presidents, major corporation officials and important foundation chairmen--and then they play around with new computer scenarios for blowing up the most strategic parts of the world. It's all a game, of course, and no one ever gets hurt; all that happens, it seems, is that the generals and their...