Word: kinsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Priest. Nevertheless, the Dweihis are as reverent as their neighbors, and the present hero of the clan is a handsome, burly, young (35) Maronite priest named Simaan, who usually totes a large pistol on his clerical rounds, and seldom travels without an escort of four or five gun-packing kinsmen. In the current elections taking place on four successive Sundays in Lebanon (TIME, June 24), Father Simaan Dweihi is a candidate for Parliament on the government ticket. None of this in any way pleases Hamid Franjieh, one of the top men in the rival clan who has served twice...
Church Ablaze. Suddenly the solemn procession of six red-robed bishops and more than 100 bearded priests was interrupted by a burst of gunfire from the café. In a moment the entire village square was ablaze with gunfire. Inside the church a covey of his kinsmen surrounded Father Dweihi, and some of them took bullets aimed at him. When at last a detachment of troops arrived from Zghorta, ten Dweihis, two Franjiehs and two Moawads lay dead. Four other innocent villagers died as well, and the wounded totaled about...
...recover the world he once spurned. Duncan Welsh had spent seven years as a newspaperman in Northern cities and lost an eye, a wife and all stomach for his job. He heads back to his father's Tennessee valley farm to root himself in the pieties of nature, kinsmen, and feudal loyalties from which he feels he was torn by anonymous city dwelling. But in the bustling regional ferment to which Duncan returns, his attitudes seem romantic, antisocial and outmoded. The powerful dramatic irony of The Innocent is that its hero seeks serenity and is driven to violence, strives...
...battle and twice in duels-but fumbles each opportunity. He kidnaps Aide but soon infects her with his own goading conscience, and. out of pity and a conviction of sin, she returns to her battered husband. Fulcun carries his passion about like a plague and involves all his kinsmen in his ruin...
...that the Holy Cup of Nanteos is not the Grail but a vessel later made from the wood of the Cross. During Henry VIII's reign, when monasteries were abolished in England, the relic was smuggled to various monks' hideouts until it reached some distant kinsmen of Mrs. Mirylees. Whatever its origin, the cup is a holy relic of Christendom...