Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dead and buried behind me," Haynsworth has resumed his intensely private way of life in Greenville, S.C., dividing his attention between his court cases and his prizewinning camellias. He has also discovered that being a Supreme Court nominee, even a failed one, has improved his social life. A cousin reports that "because of what they did to him in Washington," Haynsworth has been invited to a great many more parties and dinners than ever before. Perhaps for the same reason, he is accepting the invitations...
...debut as a rodeo rider, Monty Milhous, 19, was ignominiously tossed by a Brahma bull called Old Brindle. Earlier in the Fresno, Calif., show President Nixon's second cousin had another brief tangle-five seconds of the required eight-second ride-with a mean old mule named Khrushchev...
Flying Carpets. Outwardly the book is a picaresque saga of the extraordinary Buendia family in Macondo, the town they helped to found more than a century ago in the dense Colombian lowlands. Pioneer settlers from a foothills town, José Arcadio Buendia and Úrsula, his wife-cousin, start with nothing but the vehemence of their blood. They soon make Macondo into a strange oasis in the orchid-filled jungle, a primitive, otherworldly place resonant with songbirds, where there is no death, no crime, no law, no judges. The only outside visitors are gypsies, who astound the residents with magnets...
...bridegroom was Mahendra's son, Crown Prince Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, 24. He will not only succeed his father some day as monarch but also, the Nepalese believe, as the reincarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. The prince's bride, and also his second cousin, was Crown Princess Aishwarya Rajya Laxmi Devi Rana, 20, a member of the family that ruled...
...with computers as a vice president of Mid-Continent Screw Products, finally realized that he would have to deal with the machine on its own terms. Using a computer available to his company, he dispatched punch cards to the traffic violations bureau. Said the civilian computer to its official cousin: "Apparently the letters sent to the humans who try to control you are being disregarded. The violation is not valid. I suggest you instruct them to erase the ticket from your memory bank. I hope you can make them understand...