Word: branches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cases of police brutality, blacks "have shown a willingness to wait for a ruling from the judicial process." But he warns: "When there's an appearance of a perversion of the judicial process, people take to the streets." Agrees Joseph D. Feaster Jr., president of the Boston branch of N.A.A.C.P.: "If you get the right circumstances and the ignition, then you're going to have the problem...
...long tradition in Judaism, men dominated the synagogue. Customs have been changing, though, and the Reform branch of the religion ordained its first female rabbi in 1972. Now the middle-of-the-road Conservative branch seems to be moving toward the same decision. Last week, after long and hot debate, the annual convention of Conservative rabbis endorsed the ordination of women...
...roofs on two of Cambridge's branch libraries...
...important to find a balance between service delivery and representation of the district," Bellamy said. She added legislators too frequently choose the "service delivery" route and only defer problems to the executive branch of government...
Next Kortlandt put a sheep in a wire-mesh cage surrounded by thorn branches. This time, several hungry lionesses began pulling at the branches. But when thorns became lodged in their paw pads, they retreated to lick their wounds. That suggested early man could have protected himself on the savanna by building thorn-branch shelters. But could he survive long sieges? To find out, Kortlandt attached branches to a remote-controlled motor on a framework over chunks of meat. When lions approached, the branches spun as they might had they been brandished by man. The lions darted away...