Word: far-flung
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...Edens come of Norman stock, and as far back as the 15th century one lusty Robert de Eden carved out a fiefdom close to the Scottish border. Charles II made Sir Robert Eden a baronet in 1672. The family, though seldom conspicuous, won acceptance in the gilded circle of the aristocracy through its large landholdings and its far-flung marriage alliances. Through his mother, Sybil Frances Grey, Sir Anthony is connected with the Earls of Westmoreland, and the Mowbrays, Dukes of Norfolk. His young second wife, Clarissa, is the niece of Sir Winston Churchill...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel one afternoon this week, nearly 1,000 managers and teachers from all over the far-flung Arthur Murray dancing-studio empire gathered to learn a new dance that, vaguely resembles a rumba done in quick time by partners with one game leg apiece. The dance was the merengue, long popular in the Dominican Republic and now a lively candidate for popularity on U.S. dance floors. The merengue (pronounced meh-rew-geh) has already caught on at Manhattan's mambo-mad Palladium, and has begun to spread to less hectic New York dance spots...
...military communication, where construction of short-range relay stations is impossible or impractical. For example the long-jump method could be used across the water gaps and wilderness stretches of arctic Canada, where it would make sense to relay to a rear headquarters the pictures picked up by the far-flung radar outposts. There have been hints that a part of this system is already installed...
...voodoo than honest Scotch. South African-born Novelist van der Post (Venture to the Interior) has taken his theme from French Philosopher-Sociologist Lucien Levy-Bruhl: "Le reve est le vrai dieu des Primitifs [The dream is the real god of primitive peoples]." The Russians know that the far-flung Amangtak-wena tribe is expecting its chief witch doctor to have a "dream," i.e., to receive from the spirit world an oracular directive on tribal policy. Hunter-Hero Pierre de Beauvilliers suspects a sinister hand when a Negro clutching a flamingo feather (the summons to a dream powwow) is murdered...
Although Harvard selects these few travelling students scrupulously, it still goes to great lengths to exclude any possibility that "study by the Seine" will become a fancy term for a long Paris vacation. As a check on its far-flung students of Romance Languages, the College requires them to study in France under Sweet briar College's package program. Organized by Sweet briar, but including about eighty students from thirty colleges, this non-profit group ships the students to France, guides them through the terrors of the metro, gives them a Parisian education, and then heads them toward home...