Word: offshoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Centuries ago the Triad Society was a kind of Chinese freemasonry whose aim was "to obey Heaven and act righteously," but the Singapore offshoot of Triad has degenerated in recent years into a Crime Incorporated of young toughs who terrorize the city. The occupying Japanese temporarily checked the Triad during World War II by lopping off fingers for even the smallest thefts, but today the Triad boasts a small army of extortionists and pimps, gunmen and gamblers, organized in four cadres identifiable only by number and their tattooed insignia on the backs of the Triad's 10,000 initiates...
Eliminating objective tests in English might be an answer. "Tests reward students who can remember, not interpret," says Dean Wilson. But to President Henry Chauncey of the Educational Testing Service (a C.E.E.B. offshoot), objective tests still seem the only solution for college applicants. Writing in the current Atlantic, he argues that objective tests are more accurate. An essay may be written badly by a good student in a state of fluster, or graded in a dozen ways by as many readers. As a one-shot gauge of college eligibility, says Chauncey, the essay is unfair and undependable...
Principal offshoot of the Red propaganda missions has been an upsurge in visits behind the Bamboo Curtain by Latin Americans. Last year 37 delegations, most of them going through Russia first, got the VIP tour; so far this year, more than 40 have entered China. By and large, they have found the going good-and said so. Colombia's Congressman Horacio Rodriguez Plata climaxed a Peking banquet by praising China's "defense of peace." Rasped Chile's former Minister of the Interior Guillermo del Pedregal to Peking University students: "U.S. imperialism is our common archenemy...
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...