Word: patriarchate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is too much chasing after comfort, profits and riches," he thundered in the accents of an Old Testament patriarch. Israel, he proclaimed, was in danger. Israel's youth must gird itself, man new settlements along the threatened border, stand ready to repel the merciless Arab. Last October, at 70, he risked all on a bold and cunning "preventive war" to knock out Nasser's new, Soviet-supplied army...
...runs West Germany as an iron-willed patriarch, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, hailed by doctors as a "physical phenomenon," turned 81, shrugged off the festivities in his honor because he wants to postpone such fun and games until he is at least 90. Straight and steady as a grandfather clock (he daily trudges up and down the 78 steps leading to his house on a hillside), Adenauer was absorbed in readying his campaign to preside in Bonn for four more years. Mindful of his twelve years of hostile uselessness under the Nazis, Dr. Adenauer is fond of saying: "I have already...
United Mine Workers' aging (76) Boss John L. Lewis has generally decried, as the Devil's work, employers' injunctions to stop picketing. Picket Patriarch Lewis, however, had a familiar hot potato tossed into his own hands last week. At several Atlantic coast ports, in a jurisdictional row, pickets from A.F.L.-C.I.O. unions challenged access to some half-dozen Liberty ships owned by American Coal Shipping, Inc. A part owner of A.C.S.: United Mine Workers. At week's end the pickets in Charleston, S.C. were gone, shooed away by court injunctions obtained while Employer Lewis...
Even before the bout started, the young pretender to the heavyweight title assumed the prerogatives of a champion. Floyd Patterson, 21, made Archie Moore, the fading patriarch (39, going on 43) of the prize ring, cool his heels for a quarter-hour before weighing in. Outployed for perhaps the first time in his garrulous career, Moore sulked silently through the ceremony...
...down to write a speech taking back all his victorious vaunts of two nights before. At 12:30 a.m., delayed until his reply to Eisenhower was in Washington and thus free to be broadcast, Ben-Gurion's speech of abnegation went on the air. Hoarse and halting, the patriarch spoke his surrender: "The government is prepared to withdraw its forces from the territory of Egypt immediately after the entry of the international emergency force into the canal zone...