Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world. People feel they have to give a day's work for a day's pay." Local people commonly speak of the city's Midwestern "openness." Says Hedrick: "I was in North Palm Beach the other day, and, hell, you have to be a second cousin to Jesus Christ if you want to play at the Seminole Golf Club. But the social as well as the economic strata are open to anybody who wants to work in Wichita...
...TIME cannot reproduce his warm rich voice or the stark poetry of his songs So perhaps we are safe, and he will not become a superstar but will remain a folk singer among those who treasure his gifts Mrs. Adrian Asherman Cousin's Island...
...agreed to give the money from his anticipated Nobel Prize to his family. (The $30,000 prize was finally announced in 1922?for his photoelectric theory. Relativity, still not universally accepted among scientists, was only hinted at in the Nobel citation.) Shortly after the divorce, Einstein married his widowed cousin Elsa...
...good number apparently are not; the $40 bid is far above the market price of McGraw-Hill shares ($30 last week). Harold McGraw's cousin Donald, who was forced out of his posts as a company group president and director, but still owns 2.5% of the stock, said he was "annoyed" that the board did not at least negotiate with American Express...
...July 6, 1953 a young American stepped off the plane at Qaar-E-Shirim, Iran, and passed through customs. His name was Kermit Roosevelt '38, the grandson of Theodore Roosevelt '81 and the cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt '04. The customs officer let him pass without hindrance unaware that Roosevelt had just received instructions from Allen Dulles, the new head of the CIA, to topple the regime of the Iranian nationalist Dr. Muhammed Mossadeq. The fledgeling CIA had taken considerable interest in Iran during the preceding years, as previously unpublished documents show. Alarmed by the continuing Soviet threat to Iran...