Word: fatherly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hitson lived in a Burmese village for a year and a half, and concluded that paternal domination makes murder a far more likely result of mental illness than suicide. The father requires obedience by both wife and children, who become subdued, she stated, and this domination produces outward-directed anger...
...score of witnesses and court-appointed psychiatrists testified that Amiel showed no traces of mental unbalance, was regarded as a dedicated teacher and a man of serene disposition. The jury apparently took into consideration Amiel's wanly pretty wife, his small daughter, and the fact that his father had just died, grief-stricken at the collapse of Amiel's future, and that his mother was near death. Amiel was sentenced to two years in prison...
...father of the dead student, Eugène Rolland, 52, a bank official, could not be comforted by his wife or his remaining son, 14-year-old Michel. He considered the verdict an "affront," complained that some of the witnesses had hinted that Alain got only what he deserved, railed against the "bandit" Amiel, whose life was supposedly dedicated to children and who had betrayed his trust...
...Atahuallpa, last of the Inca emperors, who was executed by the Spanish in 1533. But over the years the suspicion has grown in Cuzco that the lofty figure is not Atahuallpa at all. It seems, instead, to be the North American redskin Powhatan, chief of the Algonquins and father of Pocahontas...
...University Professor, Emeritus, Jaeger, now 70 years old, will continue to work on his ten-volume critical study of Gregory of Nyssa, the early Greek church father and Christian philosopher...