Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months King Saud loafed, moody and myopic, about his vast palaces, in the wreckage of the prestige he had inherited from his mighty warrior father, the late Ibn Saud. Everything he touched had ended in political disaster: his extravagant giving and building exhausted the treasury and debased the currency, his clumsy plots against President Nasser exposed his regime to ridicule and isolation in the Arab world. The crowning blow had fallen when his younger brothers, led by the openly contemptuous Prince Talal, tongue-lashed him last year in private family council...
...toughness and underestimated the Somoza boys' strength, which included a well trained and loyal army, reliable reservists, and the neutrality of the urban and rural masses. Most Nicaraguans apparently are not interested in overthrowing President Luis, who has been liberalizing the dictatorship he inherited from his assassinated father, tough old Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...
Brown-haired and blue-eyed, Roy Face is a carpenter in the off season-a trade that runs in the family. His father, grandfather, two brothers and five uncles are all carpenters. When he was 20, he struck out 36 batters in two semi-pro games on successive Sundays, was promptly signed by the Philadelphia Phillies. The Pirates later drafted him from Fort Worth...
Susan Kohner, 22, was born to the Hollywood purple. Her father, successful Agent Paul Kohner, provided a Bel Air home brightened with a portrait of Susan and her brother painted by a family friend, Diego Rivera, and other baubles to match. From her mother, Mexican Actress Lupita Tovar, she inherited liquid, tip-tilted eyes of striking beauty. As a Chinese girl on TV (Schlitz Playhouse), an Italian girl in To Hell and Back, a neurotic mulatto in Imitation of Life, she began her multicolored career as one of the most versatile young actresses in town. Her latest picture: Walt Disney...
Such early dancing-school training suggests that Shirley was shoved toward the stage by ambitious parents. Not so. Her mother, Canadian-born Kathryn MacLean Beaty, was a dabbler in amateur theatricals, and her father, Ira O. Beaty, a scholarly Virginian, was a part-time musician, but the dancing lessons had a practical explanation: Shirley had weak ankles...