Word: branching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Willie claims descent from the Emperor Monomotapa ("He who plunders and gathers beautiful women"), who ruled 500 years ago; the Va-Mhani branch of the Varozwi tribe has been without a King since 1936, when Willie Samuriwo's father died. After numerous petitions, the Southern Rhodesian government agreed to let the throne be filled again, and last week, after King Willie passed his frightening test, he received his "crown"-a prosaic white sun helmet...
...Norfolk one morning last week, the telephone rang at the city desk of the Virginian-Pilot. The caller identified himself as James Anderson. He had a confession to make: a few days before, he had tried unsuccessfully to hold up the downtown branch office of the Bank of Virginia in Norfolk. Then he had read in the papers that the FBI had picked up one Daniel Dough Jr., a part-time copy boy at the Virginian-Pilot, who was identified by the bank teller as the holdup man. Said Anderson: "My conscience bothered me. I didn't want...
...heirs of impressionism deserve a better label than postimpressionism, with its overtone of depreciation. The greatest postimpressionist, Cézanne, turned the brilliant palette of impressionism into a kind of three-dimensional mosaic, a building material from which he built a new illusion of space. Bonnard, the other branch of the fork, transformed the same palette into poetry, spontaneous as breathing, modest and insidious as a dream...
Eastland: Is [the Supreme Court] a policy-making branch of the Government...
...There he came face to face with a towering, vine-festooned tree. "Isn't this fabulous, Daddy!" he cried, and heaved himself aloft up a 60-ft. vine. Wearing a varihued. skirtlike Tahitian pareu that he fancies, Bragg spent a happy hour emitting Tarzan yells and swinging from branch to branch. "This is why I came to Africa," cried Bragg. "I could go on for days...