Word: inherited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long sought in Middle Eastern affairs. But with that new status, Moscow has also acquired new problems. If the U.S.S.R. decides to push ahead with an attempt to establish an undisguised People's Democracy in Iraq, the Soviets must assume that they will alienate all other Arab nations, inherit the scapegoat position of "imperialist oppressors" that the Western powers have long occupied in Middle Eastern minds...
...will of her mother, who died last November, titian-topped Cinemactress Greer Garson, already passably well off as the wife of millionaire Texas Oilman E. E. ("Buddy") Fogelson, will inherit an estate of about...
...jaunty, mustachioed Colonel John Jacob Astor IV went down with the unsinkable ship Titanic while the orchestra played "Hold me up, mighty waters, / Keep my eye on things above." That left a nervous, narrow-chested youth of 6 ft. 4 in., perhaps the greenest freshman at Harvard, to inherit a fortune of approximately $87.2 million, organized around vast and spreading holdings, including some of Manhattan's finest hotels-the Astoria. St. Regis, Knickerbocker. Cambridge and Astor House. It was 1912, apogee of the Progressive Era and the nation's damnation of what Theodore Roosevelt had called "malefactors...
Venezuela's problems officially become President Romulo Betancourt's problems this week. Before a skeleton crew of delegates from overseas-held down at the economy-minded President-elect's own request, he will get into the ceremonial sash and inherit the headaches left by ousted Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez...
...police that Paulo was living off her earnings. Paulo went to a lawyer, who explained that under French law a legally adopted son cannot be disinherited unless he is shown to be of bad moral or criminal character -if indicted as a pimp, Paulo would lose his right to inherit the mammoth Walter fortune...