Word: clans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chung was quietly engineering a revolution. Revered by the staff as a member of the founding clan, he was able to gather information quickly and impose his will on the organization. After years managing the after-sales service operation, he concluded that quality problems were the crux of the company's ills. Suh Byung Kee, Hyundai's president, recalls Chung bursting into his office five years ago and saying: "Quality is crucial to our survival. We have to get it right no matter what the cost...
Reagan may have sparked the warming four years ago when he arranged the White House ceremony to present a posthumous congressional gold medal for Bobby Kennedy. Before the event he invited the Kennedy clan to the Oval Office. Rose Kennedy could not attend, and Reagan asked Ted to bring his mother around when she was able. Kennedy did, and the three of them talked for 45 minutes in the midst of a crowded presidential day. Reagan later awarded Eunice Kennedy Shriver the Medal of Freedom for her work with the mentally retarded and reappointed Jean Kennedy Smith to the Kennedy...
...Smith has reason to fear. Her new novel follows such a bell ringer, a haunting and resonant story of Appalachia called Oral History (1983). Family Linen uses the same narrative technique: members of a troubled clan are revealed directly to the reader, one by one, in contrasting chapters...
Barbara Bel Geddes, matriarch of Dallas' Ewing clan, enters the front door at South Fork after a hard day of trying to hold her troubled TV family together. An uninvited guest is waiting for her in the living room. "Who are you?" demands Bel Geddes. "Why, I'm Miss Ellie," replies Donna Reed. A troubled look comes over Bel Geddes' face as the music swells to a cliff-hanger close. "But," she protests, "I'm Miss Ellie...
...water plantain, a whirlpool, a pumpkin, a canyon, or the cone-shaped head of the God of Longevity? The answer is kaware kabuto, which translates from the Japanese as "conspicuous helmets." These were the singular headgear worn into battle, or during the formal maneuvers preceding it, by Japanese clan leaders, before the accurate, quick-firing arms of the 19th century rendered the helmets, their wearers and the samurai ethic they stood for irrelevant...