Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a smile during a recess last night, "My wife is preparing to do without me for a year when they send me to Leavenworth Penitentiary. Fuckin ridiculous! One of the charges against me concerns a donation by my 81-year-old mother. Another concerns a 73-year-old cousin. It's hard to take all this very seriosly," he added
...White House press corps, by and large, was not. Cousin Hugh Carter, who had just published a gossipy little book called Cousin Beedie and Cousin Hot, which prompted Billy to describe Hugh as "a self-made son of a bitch," was in San Francisco. And where was Sister Gloria, who prefers to march to her own drummer? Billy exhaled some cigarette smoke, sucked on his beer can and said, "How do I know? You know I haven't spoken to Gloria in 2½ years...
...will light up Hussein's domestic life, which has been almost as stormy as his quarter-century reign over the embattled Hashemite kingdom. After establishing early in his adulthood a reputation as a playboy with a roving eye, the King was married briefly at 19 to a distant cousin. Following a divorce in 1957, he wed an English girl named Toni Gardiner and rechristened her Princess Muna el Hussein (Desire of Hussein). The King's desire waned in 1972, after he met beauteous Alia Toukan, 23, the U.S.-educated daughter of a prominent Jordanian family. The third wedding...
Thanks to the surprise American success of Cousin, Cousine, almost every French comedy is now exported to the U.S. Dear Detective, a dreary account of a middle-aged love affair, is one of the latest such movies to arrive, and it should never have left the Parisian suburbs. This film tries to spin charm by plying the audience with closeups of pastry and long shots of the Eiffel Tower. Not even Maurice Chevalier would have been amused...
...attaché at the Afghan embassy in Washington. More recently, as leader of the 15,000-member Khalq (Masses) Party, Afghanistan's principal Communist faction, Taraki led a campaign against the domination of the long powerful Mohammed Zahir family, to which both Daoud and the cousin-King he had deposed belonged. Taraki was periodically imprisoned for his activities; indeed, he was in jail when the coup erupted two weeks ago, and one reason that the plotters hit the presidential palace so hard was to free him before Daoud could have him murdered...