Word: cousin
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After a noisy, 18-hour marathon trial that ended at 4:25 in the morning, Desyr was convicted of killing Jean-Jacques Dessalines Ambroise, a union activist, and his pregnant wife, and of torturing Jean-Jacques's brother Emmanuel, in 1965. Ambroise's cousin Alix, who was arrested along with the couple but survived, told the court that police threw Jean-Jacques into the trunk of their automobile for the drive to headquarters, where Desyr took part in the interrogation. In a darkened cell, Alix Ambroise said, he later heard what sounded like a "sack of coconuts" being dumped onto...
Hector Estime, another cousin, was one of those who accused Desyr. Said he: "We want others to come forward. It's painful and many are still scared, but it must be done if we are to make certain that this sort of nightmare does not happen again...
...recent years, as the "Kennedy cousin" generation has come to maturity, Hyannis Port and the rambling family compound have been the sites of exuberant weddings. Unlike the Maria Shriver-Arnold Schwarzenegger nuptials last April, this wedding was about as private as a Kennedy ceremony can probably be. For all the paparazzi attention that has been focused on her, Caroline, a law student at Columbia University, is actually reserved; unlike the Kennedy men, who tend to define themselves by action, Schlossberg, whom she met at a dinner party five years ago, is an intellectual and artist whose somewhat rarefied career defies...
...wedding and the preparations leading up to it, however, were as traditional as the bridegroom was atypical. So starved was the press for news that reporters zeroed in on arriving Cousin and Bridesmaid Sydney Lawford McKelvy in the Barnstable airport ladies' room and besieged her with questions as she changed her son's diaper. The mother of the bride was characteristically silent, but she did wave cheerily to onlookers when she arrived from her estate on Martha's Vineyard...
...rivers, the great tallgrass prairie of central North America covered a quarter of a billion acres, a shimmering sea of grass stretching from what is now Indiana to Kansas, from Canada into Texas. But the soil was indeed ideal for corn, and in the three centuries since, that cultivated cousin of the tallgrasses has thrived. Only a few patches of the original tallgrass prairie are left, many of them scattered across the country in such small plots as old cemeteries and railroad rights-of-way. Seventeen prairie preserves in Iowa, for example, have a total of only 1,400 acres...