Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like mating seals, detach themselves from the herd and grow up to be men and women? It seems unlikely. Only death, like poverty or God, an unmentionable fact of life, offers Decker a vision of life in its grave reality. He flunks a child-watching chore, and his little cousin Buddy dies a Californian death by surfboard. This muddles him for a time, but we are given to understand he will soon settle down to life with the other seals. One of his friends, however, is moved by the event to chuck the good life and become a monk...
...Poor Serb," Slovene had moaned, "he would choke to death on a real American cake. My cousin at the Window Shop can make him something nice...
...buts," said Slovene, and the Bulgars sent their life savings to the Window Shop for a magnificent birthday cake. Slovene's cousin, Pfannkuchen, picked out the most elegant variety: a Geburtstagfestspieltorte--five rich layers, drenched in Viennese chocolate and smothered with whipped cream and hazelnuts...
...General G. Reid Doster, commanding general of the Alabama Air National Guard, as the man "in charge of tactical air operations" for the invasion. Doster, said Hutchison, has "plenty to tell." But instead of telling, Doster referred newsmen to Albert C. Persons, managing editor of the Birmingham Examiner, and cousin of retired Army Major General Wilton B. Persons, who was President Eisenhower's top legislative liaison aide...
...traditionally loyal to the King. But if the road ahead looks rough for the monarchies, it by no means is smooth for the "liberated" states, since victory most often presents only new occasions for quarrels, in keeping with the Arab proverb that says, "I and my brother against my cousin; I and my cousin against the foreigner...