Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easier for others to pray along with them. Continental Airlines distributes cards containing a grace-before-meals along with its lunch and dinner trays. Los Angeles Disk Jockey Dick Whittinghill of KMPC calls up his teen-ager listeners between records, asks them to join him in reciting a close cousin of the New York State Regents' Prayer: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon thee, and we beg thy blessing upon us, our parents, our teachers, our loved ones and our country.'' Hollywood Psychiatrist Bernice Harker. a Methodist, has installed a tiny chapel in her office...
...time the U.S. Senate got through with it, the 1962 tax revision bill was not even a kissin' cousin to what the Kennedy Administration originally asked for. The Senate Finance Committee made precisely 174 changes in it, and most of them were upheld on the Senate floor. Viewing the ragged remnants, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon swallowed bravely, insisted that the bill was still "a significant first step toward the reform of our present out moded tax laws." But maybe Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire put it better. Said he bitterly: "It certainly is not a Kennedy bill...
However, Lee has never been heard to ask anyone to call her Missus, and her prince-like most of the Eastern Europeans stashed around London, Paris and New York-would probably sooner surrender his Cadillac than his title. Around the Radziwill family, all males are called prince-except Cousin Antony, a Bayswater wine waiter, who is rarely called at all, at least by the Radziwills...
...snubby nose of the broad-winged aircraft looked as if it had been flattened against the white cliffs of Dover. The propeller sprouted out of its tail like a designer's afterthought. In the cabin, the pilot rode a first cousin to a bicycle, and he was pedaling furiously. A covey of anxious friends checked his progress...
...business rather than big business." Von Siemens has surrounded himself with a staff of multilingual executives, many of whom have studied abroad or served in Siemens foreign outposts. Since working control of the company is held by the Von Siemens family, the heir apparent is a 51-year-old cousin. Peter von Siemens, now a deputy member of the management board of Siemens' sister firm. Siemens-Schuckert, which makes heavy electrical machinery...