Word: patriarch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last five years, Principal Harrell has been worrying a good deal about things like that. A twangy, kindly man of 56, raised on a Texas farm, he has become a sort of patriarch to the people living in some of the more dismal patches of West Dallas. Statistics tell part of the West Dallas problem. Spread out along the bottom lands of the Trinity River, it is a dreary settlement of native whites, Negroes and Mexicans jammed into row upon row of one-and two-room shacks -some 25,000 people-mostly without plumbing of any kind. In West Dallas...
...midweek, Athenagoras I, the magnificently bearded, black-robed Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church, strode into the Oval Room to bid an enthusiastic goodbye to his "beloved President" before departing for Istanbul to assume his new post as Ecumenical Patriarch. He kissed the President's forehead...
Before the Patriarch left, the President's desk phone rang. On the other end of the line was W. J. Pace, a farmer of Alamance County, N.C. Farmer Pace was calling because he is the proud owner of the one-millionth rural telephone installed by the Bell system since V-J day. He and the President chatted for a short time, and Mr. Truman learned that there are now 2,330,000 rural telephones...
Last week, before the 1,000-year-old wooden throne of the patriarch in Istanbul's small cathedral of Phanari, silver icons and ancient mosaics gleamed under the huge crystal chandeliers, and incense rose in clouds. Chanting the Kyrie Eleison, the twelve bearded metropolitans and their five alternates solemnly filed in and dropped their ballots into a silver urn. When the votes were counted, eleven were for Athenagoras and six were blank. "Axios!" (worthy) roared the crowd, and the cathedral bells began to peal...
...Well," said one spectator, who, like many Turks, believes that only modern and efficient products come from the U.S., "now we have a nylon Patriarch...