Word: patriarch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burp gun. Led by a pair of Malaysian exiles, both Chinese Communists, the guerrillas went searching for Chinese peasants loyal to the government of Tunku Abdul Rahman. They killed three in one family, stabbed three men near a bridge on the road to Kuching, and reportedly hanged a Chinese patriarch, in an attempt to scare others into turning against the government...
...when an earthquake leveled seven chimneys in Braintree, Mass., and so impressed 20-year-old John Adams that he ran to describe it for posterity. Historians now will have to find a different reason for the avalanche of Adams diaries. Last week an earlier diary of the clan patriarch-immediately dubbed "John Adams' Lost Diary"-was unveiled by Harvard University, publisher of the Massachusetts Historical Society's projected 100-volume Adams Papers...
...said, a sort of "bargain" between her and John F. Kennedy. Luella Hennessey had served the Kennedy family as a private nurse for some 25 years, attended at the births of 23 of their children, helped care for Patriarch Joseph Kennedy early in his long illness. In 1963 the President persuaded her to give up full-time nursing and go to college to study public health so that she could work with retarded children, a special concern of the Kennedy family. She agreed, and last week she received her bachelor of science degree at Boston College. Senator Teddy Kennedy, whom...
...Level XV (9834 B.C.), Makor was a six-family settlement of happy hunters dwelling in a cozy cave and rejoicing in their primal innocence. Ur, the twinkle-eyed patriarch, romped with the kiddies, celebrated his hunting prowess in ecstatic bursts of epic poetry. But Mrs. Ur wanted a better way of life, moved the family into a nice new house down near the well, got everybody started on farming, free enterprise, philosophy, house building, domestication of the wild dog, sickle manufacturing, and the long agony of getting along with God. All in the space of three years...
...Level XIII (1419 B.C.), Makor was a bustling Canaanite trading center. Out of the desert came a tribe of wandering Hebrews led by a leathery patriarch, Zadok. God had spoken to Zadok from a burning bush and told him to lead his people to a promised land. What happens is a straight steal from the Book of Judges...