Word: baron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaullists include Konrad Aden auer, increasingly suspicious of U.S. aims, former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, former Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano, and Bundestag Deputy Karl Theodor Baron von Guttenberg. They are all more or less sympathetic to De Gaulle's concept of a little Europe, with "Anglo-Saxon" influences diminished...
...armchair facing the high, white hospital bed. Harold Macmillan, recuperating from his prostate operation and cranked up to a sitting position, wore blue and white pajamas. In such unlikely surroundings Elizabeth received Macmillan's even more unlikely nomination for Prime Minister: Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Earl of Home, Baron Home, Baron Dunglass and Baron Douglas...
Hugo Stinnes-usually referred to as der Junior in German headlines-is the son of the famous Ruhr industrial baron who died in 1924, leaving his empire to be run by his wife and two sons. Hugo worked with his mother and brother Otto to rebuild the Stinnes holdings after World War II, but did not get along with his kinfolk. He set out to build an industrial complex of his own, calling one of his two holding firms "Hugo Stinnes Personally Inc." to show his independence to the world. But Hugo depended too much on the memory...
...relations between the former actress and her prideful mother-in-law and her sister-in-law, the Duchess of Brissac, had been strained for a decade. Last June the two stunned Liliane by quietly selling their Schneider shares (about 8% of the total) to a Belgian group led by Baron Edouard Empain, 49, head of Belgium's big Electrorail holding company. The baron, whose family helped exploit the Congo for Belgium and promoted the Paris Metro system, is a grand-scale investor and industrialist with holdings in utilities, chemicals and electrical equipment. Last year he bought 20% of Mexico...
...zamindar, a baron, and his ancestors for centuries before him were zamindars. In his youth he lived carelessly on inherited wealth, imagining that it would last forever. But the rising middle class was not careless, and soon some of the zamindar's neighbors were richer than he. Partly to assert his superiority, partly to gratify his passion for music, he took to regaling his acquaintances at lavish musical evenings. When his dutiful wife warned him that it was costing too much to pay the piper, he waved her away. "If I cut corners I shall lose face...