Word: clan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...companies worth $30 million in Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika. They stand at the peak of a bulging settlement of clever, clannish Indians, who came to work on the railroads at the turn of the century and stayed to do well in commerce. Unlike most of the clan, now fearful of the future under independent African rule and sending their savings abroad, the young Madhvanis are determined to remain and are vigorously expanding to prove it. Says the senior brother, Jayant Madhvani, 41: "We don't want history to say that we lagged behind when the need for economic development...
Long before Father Faulkner settled into retirement after a random career as farmer, freight agent, owner of a livery stable and finally treasurer of the University of Mississippi, Bill had become the patriarch of the clan. The role suited him ideally. He cultivated a patriarchal mustache, dispensed eggnog to his cousins every Christmas morning and justice to a flock of Negro family retainers (including a hunting companion known as "Right Now For Bear" Doolie) the year round...
...memoirs also trace the MacArthur clan back to its origins in Scotland seven centuries ago, and dip lovingly into the 19th century to resurrect the figure of General Arthur MacArthur, whose military career, from Grant through Dewey, rivaled that...
...send Russia the Kennedy clan and have Russia send us the Khrushchevs...
...latest thing for your car is a built-in tape recorder. The Beverly Hills are already full of them-transistorized, chrome, four-speaker, stereophonic cartridge models, activated by the car battery. Frank Sinatra's Riviera has one. So have such clan wagons as Dean Martin's Corvette and Peter Lawford's Ghia. Tape recorders also make a sound like Muzak in James Garner's Jaguar, Red Skelton's Rolls and Lawrence Welk's Dodge convertible...