Word: sons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muslims believe the Ka'ba is the spot where Abraham prepared to sacrifice his son Ishmael at God's command." According to Genesis 22:2, it was Isaac whom Abraham prepared to sacrifice. Have the Muslims decided that it was Ishmael, not Isaac, whom Abraham prepared to sacrifice...
...son of Georgia had renewed his tan in Georgia's sun. His ten-day vacation on isolated Sapelo Island had been so relaxing that he wants to make it a regular refreshment stand. His jogs along the Atlantic had tightened a stomach already impressively taut for a man of 54. He had even cultivated a new hair style by shifting his part from right to left. And, as Jimmy Carter returned to the White House last week, he was in an upbeat mood, telling intimates that the nation's political climate was finally turning in his favor. Said...
...news organizations and, more particularly, at the people who shaped or reshaped them: TIME and its co-founder Henry Luce; CBS and Board Chairman William S. Paley; the Washington Post and successive Publishers Philip Graham and his wife Katharine; the Los Angeles Times and Publishers Norman Chandler and his son Otis. (Curiously, Halberstam largely ignores the New York Times, explaining that much has been written about the paper in the past and citing his "personal and ambivalent" feelings toward his former employer.) Journalism critics may argue that a newsmagazine, a TV network and two daily papers on opposite coasts...
...journalists and their employers respond to their increasing power and prestige? Halberstam's book will disappoint those expecting to hear the worst. The Post, for instance, was handed down from Eugene Meyer to his brilliant son-in-law Philip Graham. Eventually Graham used Meyer's money to buy out the competition and create a morning monopoly in Washington. According to conventional wisdom, that is the time when publishers kick out the reporters and make room for the advertisers. Graham did nothing of the sort; he used his newfound security to take on better journalists and increase his paper's authority...
Sirica's unorthodox background probably helped him deal with the nation's unprecedented crisis. The son of a luckless Italian immigrant, he confesses that he sometimes lived beyond the law. Hired as a mechanic's helper in Washington, D.C., the pudgy 14-year-old discovered a way to make his job easier. Instead of completely cleaning out grease caps on the automobiles of 1918, he merely scraped off the top layer of old grease and applied a little new. Irate owners complained that their cars still squeaked. Before he could be fired, Sirica quit...