Word: patriarch
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...city dwellers in Boston and Albany, and London and Cracow, it all made glorious sense. The 320 acres of government land were there for the taking, free to anyone enterprising enough to pay a $22 filing fee and build fences. Hard work would turn a clerk into a landowning patriarch...
...Gingrich and other Republicans called for a probe into the curious circumstances. Among them: Last year the White House sent a routine get-well card to Hashim Ning, co-founder and major shareholder of the Lippo Group, a $6 billion insurance, banking and real estate empire controlled by Indonesian patriarch Mochtar Riady. Not long after the card was received, Hashim's daughter and son-in-law, Soraya and Arief Wiriadinata, donated $425,000 to the D.N.C. The Wiriadinata couple, who were living in suburban Virginia, had been U.S. residents for only a short time. They have since returned to Indonesia...
...measure, 39 is a tough age to be. It's the age at which even the fittest ballplayer is described as a "grizzled veteran." It's the age at which a former rock 'n' roller embarking on a comeback tour will be referred to respectfully as "the patriarch of pop." It's the age at which you first realize that no matter how successful you become in your career, you are chronologically disqualified from ever again being referred to as a wunderkind...
DIED. BILL MONROE, 84, singer, mandolin virtuoso and father of bluegrass music; in Springfield, Tennessee. Distinguished by the mutton-chop sideburns and chiseled demeanor that gave him the aura of a patriarch from another century, Monroe was one of those rare artists who sired a musical genre. In 1938 he formed his first band, calling it the Blue Grass Boys after his home state, Kentucky. The group soon took on the bluegrass configuration of mandolin, fiddle, guitar, bass and banjo, paired with the near-falsetto harmonies that Monroe called his "high, lonesome sound." Bluegrass lives on across the country, including...
...made it clear she won't do interviews. But much is already known about her. She's a young widow (age 8) and has always been special. Raised mostly by humans in San Francisco, she was on loan to Chicago when she had a fling with Abe, the silverback patriarch who was more than six times her age. He died not long ago, after Koola was born, a father at last. Until Binti came along, no female had interested him. Fame and oodles of fan mail have not changed her. For example, Binti shared a 25-lb. gift basket...