Word: offshoot
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...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...
...pacifist, the Mennonites repeatedly had to flee persecution; some groups from Germany and The Netherlands ultimately migrated to Russia and then to the New World. This time, however, the reasons for moving were more secular. The Canadian Mennonites were tired of the long, cold winters, while members of an offshoot colony in Chihuahua complained of being harassed by their Mexican neighbors...
Kraus says that it was "almost a miracle." Until then, he had not known whether any of his comrades at the embassy had survived. He had been spirited away from the hospital by leftists and turned over to the Komiteh, an offshoot of Ayatullah Khomeini's Islamic Revolutionary Council. Early efforts by the embassy to arrange Kraus' release were unsuccessful because the Komiteh did not inform the Bazargan government that it had him in custody. Before long, the Kraus case reached Jimmy Carter's attention. The White House pressed hard for information on Kraus, and even...
Last June, Herbert Armstrong excommunicated his mellifluous TV preacher son Garner Ted, 48, who now operates a 3,000-member offshoot, the Church of God, International, from Tyler, Texas. Since the family fallout, the Worldwide Church has been run by Rader, a lawyer who was baptized by Herbert in 1975. The suit claims that Rader, whose 40-year-old secretary wed Herbert Armstrong in April 1977, may have reaped the profit from the $1.8 million sale of his Beverly Hills estate, which allegedly was maintained at church expense. The suit also raises questions about Rader's financial involvement...
While generals and admirals have paraded in and out of the elegant pale yellow structure over the years, Blair House has remained a place of hope. The original house was built in 1824 by an offshoot of the Lovell family of Massachusetts, taken over later for a century by the Blairs, who came out of Kentucky to join Jackson and waxed wealthy from publishing and real estate. But always the national purpose was a central theme in the family life. Indeed, it was Francis Preston Blair Sr. who twice went off for Lincoln on secret missions to Jefferson Davis...