Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cries of "Go home spook!" and "Kill the jungle bunny!" still echoed from the bleachers, both north and south of the Mason-Dixon line. During one game in Syracuse, the opposing team turned a black cat loose on the field, shouting that it was the "black boy's cousin." Robinson responded by drilling a double to left. In 1946, after leading the International League in hitting, with a .349 average, Robinson moved up to the big leagues-and bigger troubles...
...period of 42 months. The victims ranged in age from seven weeks to eight months-their assailants, from two to eight years. Of the six little murderers, one was retarded, one was a "slow learner" and four were "apparently normal." Three of the young murderers assaulted relatives: a cousin, a brother and a nephew. One killed an unrelated infant his mother was caring...
...Commission of Inquiry to investigate Administrative unresponsiveness was belatedly set up in the Fall of 1970, after its notorious cousin had been functioning for one year. The Commission failed to placate students; it innocuously investigates institutions like Harvard Student Agencies and has only advisory powers...
...Tourist Mrs. Margaret Morgan, 71, landed at Kennedy Airport and took a cab 30 miles to Woodbridge, N.J., she was somewhat astonished at the driver's tab. But "he was a big fellow," said Mrs. Morgan, so she handed over all her money, borrowed another $150 from the cousin she was visiting to pay what should have been a $35 fare. Mrs. Morgan's story hit the newspapers, prompting help from a wholly unexpected source: Frank Sinatra. The singer sent Mrs. Morgan a check for $250 by personal messenger in apology for his countryman's greed. "When...
Among the first through that new door for the coming season were-once again-Yorkin and Lear. This time they have a spin-off from Family called Maude, and already it ranks as one of the fall's top prospects. Maude is Edith Bunker's cousin who lives somewhere in upstate New York. As played by the formidable (5 ft. 9 in.), husky-contral-toed Beatrice Arthur, she may do for liberal suburban matrons what Archie has done for urban hardhats...