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Word: cousin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jastrow Henry, Submariner Byron's Jewish wife. With her baby and her uncle Aaron Jastrow, a famous American Jewish author, Natalie is caught in Italy when the U.S. declares war. The trio's journey, a war-long struggle to escape, is dramatically paired with the agonies of Cousin Berel, a Polish Jew, in the concentration camps. The intertwining tales allow Wouk, a devout Jew, to measure the Nazi persecution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Multitudes II | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Winthrop--a descendant of John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts, and a distant cousin of the John Winthrop who served as president of Harvard in the late 18th century--campaigned with the promise of deemphasizing the role the chairman will play in directing the Student Assembly...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: A Winthrop for the Student Assembly | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...boasted its own dramas of unlikely passion: Vita's mother, Lady Victoria Sackville, was herself the illegitimate daughter of a Spanish dancer and a Sackville heir. Courted by President Chester A. Arthur and J.P. Morgan-to name two of the more prominent suitors-she married her first cousin and embarked on a chaotic life that involved her in lawsuits, love affairs and implausible schemes for the preservation of Knole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Victoriana | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill, Sir Winston's cousin, who has decided to go into the men's wear manufacturing business: "A Churchill has to do whatever comes along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 25, 1978 | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...plot differs from Star Wars only in detail: by some devilish mischief, a race of robots has zapped twelve of the 13 planets harboring the human race. Led by a human renegade called Count Baltar, a first cousin to Darth Vader, the robots take off in hot pursuit of the survivors of the dozen planets, who are manning a ragtag fleet hovering around the "battlestar" Galactica. The humans are desperately searching for the 13th planet, a lost, legendary human colony called Earth. Lorne Greene is the wise old man in charge, and Dirk Benedict and Richard Hatch play Han Solo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Small-Screen Star Wars | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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