Word: offshoot
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Across the land, summer stock plunged hopefully toward a bull market, with its youngest, sprightliest offshoot clearly leading the way-musicals under canvas. By season's end, almost 5,000,000 Americans will have bought $12 million worth of tickets to the nation's 29 tent theaters. Few of the big-top producers will do better than a sometime carnival fire-eater named St. John (rhymes with Injun) Terrell, 42, who celebrates Christmas by donning colonial garb and boating the Delaware in memory of George Washington's 1776 Trenton victory. A mere Mike Toddler among impresarios when...
...offshoot of bodibiru (body building), a word heroically coined by Japanese tongues when U.S. and British physical culturists spread their gospel in Japan years...
...teen-ager in Texas, John F. McMahon beat the drum and tootled the saxophone for the Volunteers of America, a U.S. offshoot of the Salvation Army that his father and mother had joined. Later he embarked on a promising career in an industrial catering business, but at 24 he decided that "there are things more important than money." He went back to the Volunteers...
...highly competitive drugmakers-concentrated on a narrow street called Doshomachi in Osaka, around a shrine of Yakusoshin (an ancient god of drugs). By December, Daiichi Seiyaku was on the market with its own brand of meprobamate, called Atraxin. Lederle Ltd. put out Miltown. Takeda competed with its own corporate offshoot by pushing Harmonin...
...WOMAN is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke-or is it? Could it be, in psychological reality, a preconscious device to impress that woman with one's virility? This, at any rate, is the view held by practitioners of a new offshoot of depth psychology known as Motivation Research. For an account of the mass psychology that has the whole U.S. economy on its analyst's couch, see MEDICINE, Psychology...