Word: offshoot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groups have been hostile since the Ndebele, an offshoot of the Zulu, conquered the Shona during the 19th century...
...there's any violence tomorrow, it will be brought on by the authorities," Edgar Bittone of the Coalition for Direct Action (CDA), the Clamshell Alliance offshoot that is organizing the protest, said yesterday...
...inevitable offshoot, the S.O.B. test...
...Provisional I.R.A. has its roots in the trouble-torn days of August 1969, when British troops first began patrolling Ulster. It started as a small band of dissident Catholic militants, an offshoot of an amateurish, ill-equipped and disorganized I.R.A. whose tiny membership strove vainly to maintain the much-vaunted memories of Ireland's "war of independence" of 50 years before. The early Provos soon displayed a ruthlessness all their own. They capitalized on the popular Catholic campaign for civil rights, orchestrated protests and street violence...
...Neave, later shadow spokesman for Northern Ireland, was assassinated last March by an offshoot of the Irish Republican Army; a bomb planted in his car exploded as he drove out of the Parliament garage...