Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What begins as an appeal turns, through the vigilance of the U.S.S.R., into some brisk spy-and-counterspy hanky-panky. At the end Kuprin, caught out, swears to stay permanently in the U.S.S.R. in exchange for letting the American and his new Soviet sweetheart-who is Kuprin's cousin-get away...
Died. The Duchess of Marlborough (née the Hon. Mary Cadogan), 61, daughter of an ancient Welsh house, wife of the tenth Duke of Marlborough, frequent hostess to Britain's royal family as mistress of stately Blenheim Palace, birthplace of her cousin by marriage, Sir Winston Churchill; after a long illness of an undisclosed nature; in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England...
...With his cousin, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, then president of the Chicago Tribune. They got their starting stake through their mothers, who controlled the Tribune's treasury and peeled off enough of it to launch the Daily News...
...sculptures along the walls. He was such a Calvinist in those days." He managed to put up a model Workers' City near Bordeaux, but the buildings so offended the local authorities that they refused to furnish them with water for six years. In 1927 Corbu, with his cousin and partner Pierre Jeanneret, submitted a plan for the League of Nations. As he bitterly wrote of the incident later: "After 65 meetings of the jury in Geneva, the project of L-C and Pierre Jeanneret was the only one of 360 schemes (seven miles of plans) that received four votes...
...Death of Justina is a more explicit try at sketching a corner of hell in suburban U.S. His wife's elderly cousin dies in the narrator's house, but the town is so carefully zoned that in his neighborhood there are no undertakers and none are permitted to come from outside to pick her up. The only solution, his doctor tells him, is to take her across the zoning line in his car. But Justina's death is merely the incident that fires the smoldering discontent of a man whose daily stint is to commute...