Word: elders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George V, who became a much beloved sovereign, never expected to come to the throne. He thought his elder brother would, and was horrified when he found he was going to become King. He then said to an intimate, "It's awful. I have not been trained as King at all." The friend replied, "You've had the finest upbringing a constitutional monarch can have-you've been brought up as an officer in the Royal Navy...
...Palestine at the time struck him as un-European, uncivilized and even somewhat Asiatic. Alas, the Poles and Lithuanians turned out to be almost as bad as the Bolsheviks. "Go to Palestine, you sickness of Europe," they told him. And so, he finally settled in Jerusalem, while his elder son went on lecturing on comparative literature at Vilna University, until the Nazis came and slaughtered him and his family. In Jerusalem Alexander Klausner went on writing his Russian poems about the beauty of the emeralds with which the streets of Jerusalem were not paved...
...ready for two Travoltas? As Saturday Night Fever continues to turn on the fans, John's elder brother Joey, 27, has decided to cash in on the family name. "Things are hot for me now," says Joey, who once taught emotionally disturbed children in Englewood, N.J. With $5,000 from John, 24, Joey headed for Hollywood, where he turned down a part in a TV pilot because the role was too much like his brother's in Welcome Back, Kotter. But he managed to sign a movie contract. Joey has also cut his first single. The title...
...Personally, I don't think tenure is good for the whole world, but I'm an establishment type and I think academe should have a series of elders. Tribes end up announcing someone as an elder, and I'll bet in some jungle place everybody is saying, 'That guy doesn't remember what he's talking about--how the hell can he run this tribe...
...Britain, France, West Germany and Canada) for a political solution to Namibia's problems, thousands of members of the territory's Herero tribe gathered to pay tribute to their fallen leader, Chief Clemens Kapuuo, who had been slain by his political enemies. He was no ordinary tribal elder but the head of a multiracial coalition, who might have become the first President of an independent Namibia...