Word: clans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...none were so bitter as the tribesmen of the Djebel Druze, a rugged group of hills in southern Syria, where in 1954 revolt erupted after years of discontent. Shishekly, in a four-week campaign, crushed the Druzes, hammering their mountain strongholds with tanks, planes and artillery. The powerful Druze clan of the Ghazali took some of the heaviest casualties...
...week's end the Brazilian police arrested two men and were searching for a third, who is the prime murder suspect. No one in Syria was surprised to learn that the man wanted is a young Druze tribesman and a member of the Ghazali clan named Nawaf Abu Ghazali. He also had emigrated to Brazil and waited a decade to avenge the savage reprisals against his people almost 10,000 miles away in the Djebel Druze...
Singular Doctrines. Though he had a reputation in later life for austere reserve, these early diaries show that the young Charles Francis was sensitive, touchy, and much more frolicsome than the rest of the Adams clan. Covering his life from age twelve to 22 and dealing mostly with his Harvard years, the entries are often solemn commentary on his vast reading, but there are also vivid accounts of drinking bouts, billiard games, and pretty girls who powerfully affected him: "Women have acted upon me by a voluptuous manner, to which I am unfortunately peculiarly susceptible." In a hurry...
...oldest public high school in Michigan, Central was founded in 1858 as an academic pipeline to the University of Michigan. Its plant is a majestic Georgian building on an 11-acre plot, and before World War II Dime Store Millionaire S. S. Kresge and the Dodge automotive clan had mansions in the vicinity. As late as 1954, Central seniors led the city by walking off with 42 college scholarships...
...social ups and downs of the Bonapartes are the subject of South African Author Theo Aronson's overromanticized but staggeringly detailed book. The best that can be said for most of the clan is that they had the courage of their social pretensions...