Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prince Naruhiko Higashi Kuni, distant cousin of Emperor Hirohito, commander of Japanese forces which raped Nanking, Home Defense Chief who in 1942 threatened to execute captured U.S. airmen "if guilty of inhumanities." But no imperial prince has ever headed a Japanese Government. If Higashi Kuni broke the precedent, it might still all opposition, since no voice would dare cry out against an imperial prince. Such a move would also make it impossible for the imperial family to evade responsibility for ultimate defeat. Or the last-minute choice might be someone else. Japan was going through the political wringer-probably...
...their binoculars on a grey shape across the loch, by Ford Island. The Essex, first of America's post-Pearl Harbor battle carriers, had arrived to take her place in the battle line. Soon her sister ship, now named Yorktown instead of Bon Homme Richard, and a first cousin, the Lexington, would follow...
...Chicago Tribune's Colonel Robert McCormick and his New York News's cousin, Captain Joseph Patterson, are more like black sheep than lambs. But last week these two Anglophobes (Colonel McCormick thinks of Rhodes Scholars as fifth columnists in tweeds) surprised everyone by lying down with a lion; their Tribune-News syndicate made a deal with the British news monopoly, Reuters, to peddle each other's wares...
...against one another and to wreck the prospective marriage, it begins to become clear even to those who wish him well that Hitler's Bad Boy is an abysmally different species from Peck's. Indeed it is hardly necessary for Emil to try to murder his young cousin (Joan Carroll) to convince everyone that he is, in fact, a symptom of a very ugly kind of social disease, a possibly incurable human being, at twelve...
...Hungarian First Army who went over to the Russians with his staff last October after Regent Nicholas Horthy's ill-fated try for an armistice. Among his ministers: an author and student of agrarian reform; a history professor jailed by Horthy for "subversive activities" ; a geology professor and cousin of Count Paul Teleki, ex-Premier who committed suicide in April 1941. Notably absent was Hungary's top Communist, Matyas Rakosi, sixtyish, stout ex-commissar in the Communist Government of Béla Kun after World War I, later vice president of the Comintern. Rakosi presumably was in Moscow...