Word: clannish
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...here alone, I'm anti-Semitic." Musical-comedy exuberance dominates a battle scene that has Sinatra aloft in a Piper Cub, bombing Egyptian tanks with Seltzer bottles and spraying soda at their planes. By then, the movie has trimmed its theme to fit the formula of any Clannish catered affair...
...devil and I'm not a saint. I am a human being with all his contradictions," he told the applauding delegates. Clannish Bavarians, who regard Hamburg publishers as hardly civilized interlopers from the north, may well respond by giving the local boy a handsome mandate in September's elections...
...enter its grim, grey, 17th century walls, takes religion seriously, and demands reparation for sins against divine law. Without a doubt, Pastor Van der Wiel, 54, had offended Elburg's sense of the proprieties. As pastor of the Reformed Church for ten years, he had earned the clannish townsfolk's respect for his learned sermons, theological orthodoxy and stern denunciations of engaged couples who did not wait until their wedding night. The town was horrified seven weeks ago when four local youths reported that they had seen pretty, blonde Matje Leusink, 26, kissing the pastor...
Profitable Intangibles. Some clannish companies eventually sell out or merge: Q-Tips, for example, recently merged into Chesebrough-Pond's, and Breck Shampoo into American Cyanamid. A much larger number of successful and independent businesses find ingenious ways to overcame the hurdles. Charles Cassius Gates Jr., president of Denver's Gates Rubber Co., has led his company abroad and diversified it so widely that it now has both egg factories and a mutual fund. To overcome the disadvantages of nepotism, Seattle's Simpson Timber has ruled that the only job open to the owners' family...
Permanent Revolution. People's Daily warned last spring that China's enemies were pinning their hopes on the "deterioration of the younger generation," and that concern for "seniority" in promoting officials was "backward, clannish, feudal thinking." When the Communist Youth League met a few weeks later, its first secretary, Hu Yao-pang, 51, was reelected, but 144 of its 178 committee members were replaced...