Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failed twice before. Daubed with grease, Philip entered the forbidding water at Cap Gris Nez. Buffeted by squalls and strong tides, he was urged again & again by his father in a rowboat to give up. But Philip would not. Twenty-three hours and 48 minutes after the start, he waded ashore at Kingsdown, near Deal...
Longer than Empire. The man of this faith was born a Roman Catholic in the shadow of Cologne's magnificent twin-spired cathedral. His father, a minor bureaucrat, wanted him to be a bank clerk, but young Konrad looked with awe upon the high Beamten (officials) who strode about Cologne exuding importance. He decided to get a university education so that he could be a Beamter some day too. With the help of scholarships and spare-time work, he studied law and economics, settled down to practice law in Cologne. At 30 he started up the ladder of bureaucracy...
Adenauer, a staunch democrat in politics, is an autocrat of the breakfast and the dinner table. His son says: "Father leaves democracy at the door. He rules our family with a strong hand. If a rose tree must be transplanted, he decides when and where. If my sister wants to bake a cake, he must say yes or no. This is not unusual in Germany, you know; this is how it should...
...individuals, the garment workers are the most disputatious, diverse, and in some ways the most innately disrespectful of authority of any segment in all U.S. labor. But they have a boss who is much more than a boss. To them, busy, bumptious little David Dubinsky is leader, father, prophet and demigod. To his I.L.G.W.U., they display furious devotion. It is a school, a welfare clinic, a social life and a political mentor. It is, as some of them say, a way of life...
Keep Me Supplied. Things were hard at first. Lydia made the compound herself in her cellar kitchen; she and her three sons and one daughter bottled it in the evenings while father Isaac read aloud. In her spare time, Lydia wrote advertising circulars which her sons distributed door to door. But sales were precious few until son Dan invaded Brooklyn with 20,000 of his mother's handbills. ("KEEP ME SUPPLIED WITH PAMPHLETS," he wrote exuberantly.) Lydia, it turned out, had as much of a genius for advertising as she had for pounding herbs. She addressed herself directly...