Word: aunt
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...this new-old cooking, the late James Beard, an early champion of American food, said, "It doesn't matter if it's regional, Momma or Aunt Hattie. If it's good, it's worth saving." But he warned that the conserving must be done with expertise. Many hope that New York Times Food Editor Craig Claiborne is equally correct with his prediction: "I don't think we're going back to plain old pot roast. We're not going back to Jell-O That's ridiculous...
...village in eastern Canada, Francis had his maternal grandfather to thank for his lifelong freedom from money worries. He owes his mixed Protestant and Roman Catholic training to the strictures of his British father, whose family has been Church of England "since Reformation times," and the meddling of an aunt who gives him holy pictures and sees that a priest baptizes him during a siege of whooping cough...
...spent most of his life in the thick of politics, Deng has remained unusually close to his family. Since the death of his father in 1938, his household has included his stepmother Xia Baigen. He helps support an aunt and uncle, 86 and 83, respectively, who still live at the old Sichuan family home in Paifang. After the Cultural Revolution, he arranged for his son Deng Pufang to receive medical treatment in the U.S. He is now director of China's Welfare Fund for the Handicapped. Deng Zhifang, 34, is a graduate researcher in physics at New York's University...
...were carrying false passports. The Greek Foreign Ministry took the unprecedented step of barring all Palestinians from entering the country without special permission. Despite the deft performance, Airport Commander George Papadimitropoulos insisted that there are limits to airport security. Said he: "Can you imagine a Greek family, mother, aunt, grandma, uncles, who came to see off their son, being told they...
...lately: a celebrity desperate to get back in the spotlight. She keeps her old TV Guide cover and a portrait of her Leno appearance framed in her house like a shrine to a former, dead self. She gets a chance to land a network sitcom--playing the prudish aunt on a lame-brained sex comedy--if she'll also do a reality series about her comeback. She signs up because, she says, "Reality TV is the reality...